Hello, It seems like we've reached the end of this thread, so I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you both again for working to improve dgit-maint-merge(7).
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:16:07AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Filing this a s new bug. The reference to #720177 is not really > useful to a user. I think it's better not to add things to manpages > as a reminder to the developers ... Fair enough. The main reason I thought it might be useful was the link to your d-devel post explaining how such a workflow would work, but it's a bit buried. On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:23:35AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > It's the header of a patch in debian/patches/. What "the changes" > refers to is surely obvious. Particularly from the previous sentence > which talks about the lack of a quilt series. > > (Also "the Debian delta" is wrong if the same patch header is found in > a source packge for a derivative. The rest of the text is less > helpful too - mentioning Debian specific urls - but that's not as easy > to sort out.) Good point, although the file will be called 'debian-changes'. -- Sean Whitton
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