Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1: patch-queues managed by gpb-pq should be based on upstream 
(and more suggestions)

On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Michael Wild wrote:
> The whole rebasing and patch-queue handling would be much cleaner if the
> patch-queue branch was based on the merge-base of the branch that should
> contain the debian packaging (e.g. master) and the upstream branch (e.g.
> upstream).

Full ack. It's weird to have "gbp-pq export" generate patches for
debian packaging commit just because the patch-queue branch has not
yet been rebased on top of the (latest) packaging branch (and this even
though the underlying upstream version has not changed).

> I.e. gbp-pq could do the following for import:
> gbp-pq export could then do:
> and gbp-rebase finally could do:

The suggested operations seem fine and logical to me.

Cheers,
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