Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.6.0~git20120415 Severity: wishlist Sometimes I'd like to maintain a local fork of an official Debian package. So I use git-import-dsc to import it in a git repository and maintain it with git-buildpackage.
Now there's a new upstream version that has been packaged by Debian and I want to update my local fork. git-import-dsc offers me no way to do this, it will always overwrite my local changes. Instead I have to use "git-import-dsc --debian-branch=debian" to maintain a clean history of the debian changes and then merge this branch in my local branch. It would be nice if this workflow could be officially supported by git-buildpackage either with a new command: $ git-sync-package <git-import-dsc options> It would ensure that the .dsc is a newer version of the external package that is tracked. The default branch used for this tool would be something like "upstream-%(vendor)" with vendor being "distribution" by default. Both should be configurable with a command line option. With an --import option, it would only update the upstream-distro branch and not merge the result. PS: I would suggest to rename "--(git-)?debian-* to --(git-)?vendor-*" it would be less confusing when git-buildpackage is used in a derivative tracking debian... -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages git-buildpackage depends on: ii devscripts 2.11.6 ii git 1:1.7.10-1 ii python 2.7.2-10 ii python-dateutil 1.5-1 ii python2.6 2.6.7-4 ii python2.7 2.7.3~rc2-2.1 Versions of packages git-buildpackage recommends: ii cowbuilder 0.69 ii pristine-tar 1.24 Versions of packages git-buildpackage suggests: ii python-notify 0.1.1-3 ii unzip 6.0-6 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
