Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#834618: dgit quilt-fixup shouldn't ever fail if there
are no local changes to record"):
> Package: dgit
> Version: 1.4
> Severity: normal
>
> For example:
>
> hephaestus ~/src/ocrmypdf % dgit quilt-fixup
> Format `3.0 (quilt)', checking/updating patch stack
> starting quiltify (multiple patches, linear mode)
> HEAD is now at ddd62dc release
> dgit: quilt fixup cannot be linear. Stopped at:
> dgit: 293e3b0e..4dabc96d: changed
> debian/patches/0001-patch-test-suite-executable.patch
> dgit: quilt fixup naive history linearisation failed.
> dgit: Use dpkg-source --commit by hand; or, --quilt=smash for one ugly
> patch
If there are no changes then it shouldn't fail. But it may be that
there is some other problem and the bug is a wrong error message.
Can you please send me all the ingredients ? I will need:
* All the .orig's involved
* The git HEAD you were working from
Thanks,
Ian.
