Package: dgit Version: 2.16.2 Severity: wishlist You can't just invoke the excellent nmudiff tool when following the steps in dgit-nmu-simple(7): nmudiff requires the old source package to be present in the parent directory.
This is a bit counter-intuitive for someone used to doing NMUs the old-fashioned way. They would always have the old .dsc present in the parent directory, so they wouldn't ever think about obtaining it for the purpose of invoking nmudiff. It would be good to have a simple wrapper `dgit nmudiff` that either (i) downloads the .dsc from the archive and then runs nmudiff, or (ii) rewinds the dgit/sid branch and builds the .dsc, and then runs nmudiff. dgit-nmu-simple(7) would need to be updated to refer to this new wrapper. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-686-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 20161102 ii coreutils 8.25-2 ii curl 7.50.1-1 ii devscripts 2.16.14 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.10 ii dput-ng [dput] 1.11 ii git [git-core] 1:2.11.0-1 ii git-buildpackage 0.8.7 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.10 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
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