Antoine Beaupré writes ("Bug#727053: how to manage patches with dgit?"):
> On 2013-10-22 08:05:08, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I think the error you must have originally had (which prevented your
> > non-dry-run push) was due to your working tree being dirty when you
> > ran dgit push. Specifically, git-buildpackage would have left the
> > build products, debhelper log, and so forth.
>
> Hummm... I am really not sure about this. I believe that
> git-buildpackage builds in a completely different directory, after
> git-export'ing the repository, so there shouldn't be any such cruft
> around...
Hmmmm.
Of course, your repro recipe didn't mention any of this :-). Can I
ask that if it fails again, you give me a complete transcript of the
whole failing operation - including the preceding build ?
> ... furthermore, I couldn't use dgit's build wrapper because I use a
> combination of pbuilder/cowbuilder with git-buildpackage to build
> packages in a sid chroot (still running this server in wheezy here).
Right. I normally use dgit sbuild for this, but other approaches
should work too.
> Okay. It would have helped a lot if the error message would have been
> clearer - I couldn't even understand the diff presented: what it was
> diffing, or why, or why it was an error, or how to fix it.
Hmm. Well that particular error message is gone now.
> > The results of your attempts to manually fix things up for
> > bugs-everywhere aren't ideal. I don't know if the clone will work
> > after your package comes out of NEW. Could you let me know when it is
> > out of NEW and I'll check ?
>
> I will do my best to remember this.
Thanks.
> I subscribe to the "LowNMU" policy, but even without that, you have my
> full blessing. I believe a -1.0 suffix would be fine.
Right.
> > Alternatively, if you plan to make another upload yourself, with dgit,
> > then if we're lucky that will work.
>
> Awesome, I will let you know in any case. I suspect the package may have
> trouble getting through NEW, mainly because I feel I may have overlooked
> some things in the package, so I may very well have to do that upload
> again. :)
OK.
> Thanks for the great and quick followup!
You're welcome. Thanks for the bug report and your own quick
followups.
Regards,
Ian.
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