On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:08:56 +0200 Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= < a...@sigxcpu.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 07:26:07PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > > Hi David, > > sorry for the late reply. > > > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 12:12:17AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > > > Package: git-buildpackage > > > Version: 0.5.4 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > Currently gbp-import silently drops unknown header fields. This is > > > problematic for the proposed DEP3 header, which allows more fields > > > than From, Date, and Subject. Minimally it should complain that > > Yes, that sucks. It's caused by gbp-pq using "git quilt-import" for the > > import. We have to get rid of git-quilt-import due to other bugs like > Just as a side note: If you put the header fields after the patch > description - just like the first example at > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ the header fields are preserved by git > quilt-import. > Cheers, > -- Guido > > >
Note that while this format (the additional fields after the description) is left alone by gbp-pq, it is rearranged by edits by cme (libconfig-model-dpkg-perl) which places all the DEP-3 fields at the top of the patchfile.
