Package: dgit
Version: 2.12
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Now that the debian/ tag is always generated, and placed on the branch
you upload from, it is a bad idea to upload from the quilt-cache dgit
view rather than the sponsee's view, even if you used the quilt-cache
view to review.  Patch attached.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dgit depends on:
ii  apt                               1.4~beta2
ii  ca-certificates                   20161130
ii  coreutils                         8.25-2
ii  curl                              7.50.1-1
ii  devscripts                        2.16.14
ii  dpkg-dev                          1.18.15
ii  dput                              0.11.0
ii  git [git-core]                    1:2.10.2-3
ii  git-buildpackage                  0.8.7
ii  libdpkg-perl                      1.18.15
ii  libjson-perl                      2.90-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl            0.416-1+b1
ii  libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.24.1~rc4-1
ii  libtext-glob-perl                 0.10-1
ii  libtext-iconv-perl                1.7-5+b4
ii  libwww-perl                       6.15-1
ii  perl                              5.24.1~rc4-1

Versions of packages dgit recommends:
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:7.3p1-5

Versions of packages dgit suggests:
ii  sbuild  0.72.0-2

-- no debconf information

-- 
Sean Whitton
From d5732aa83ca363be2c27757f242c4ed2a9d55061 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:32:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] dgit-sponsorship(7): Update in light of fixed #844129

Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name>
---
 dgit-sponsorship.7.pod | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod b/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod
index ed37ff5..3fc59d2 100644
--- a/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod
+++ b/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod
@@ -245,7 +245,15 @@ or similar, to to the build, and then
 C<dgit -wgf [--quilt=...] push>
 to do the upload.
 
-(If you switched to the quilt-cache dgit view,
+(It is possible to upload from
+the quilt-cache dgit view,
+but this will cause the debian/1.2.3-1 tag to be
+placed on this branch
+rather than the sponsee's working branch.
+Since this might be confusing,
+it is a good idea to switch back to the sponsee's view,
+after reviewing and before pushing.
+If you do want to upload from the quilt-cache dgit view,
 B<do not> pass the --quilt or --gbp or --dpm option again.)
 
 If this was the first upload done with dgit,
-- 
2.10.2

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