Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#840153: Feedback, and dgit-maint-gbp(7) [and 1 more
messages]"):
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 09:47:42PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Oh! Would you care to separate out the ones you would like me to
> > take, into their own (sub) branch ?
>
> I'm suggesting you take all of them -- I just didn't mention all of them
> in my e-mails. Sorry for not being clearer.
Ah. OK. (I haven't looked at your branch yet...)
> > I wonder if it would be better practice for the sponsor to make the
> > tag and finalise the changelog. With dgit, changes made by the
> > sponsor are easily picked up by the sponsee.
>
> I would not be in favour of that practice.
Your reasons make sense.
> Anyway, this isn't really a discussion for this bug report. What do you
> think about adding a commit to suggest having them delete the tag, if
> they added it?
Sure.
> > The only way to make all this work is for the NMUer to explicitly set
> > out to rebase the patch queue (perhaps using some tool like gbp).
>
> Thanks for explaining that. Sounds like we should leave that part of
> the manpage as it is.
Yes, I thought so. But then I did write it like that :-).
Thanks,
Ian.
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