Package: dgit
Version: 10.7+deb12u2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: bj...@bjh21.me.uk
Control: found -1 12.6
Dear Maintainer,
In dgit-user(7) there's this paragraph:
For many Debian packages, there will also be some things in
"debian/patches/". It is best to ignore these. Insofar as they are
relevant the changes there will have been applied to the actual files,
probably by means of actual comments in the git history. The contents
of debian/patches are ignored when building binaries from dgitish git
branches.
I think the word "comments" in that sentence is meant to read "commits".
I've attached a trivial patch to fix this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.9
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-31-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages dgit depends on:
ii apt 2.6.1
ii ca-certificates 20230311
ii coreutils 9.1-1
ii curl 7.88.1-10+deb12u8
ii devscripts 2.23.4+deb12u2
ii dpkg-dev 1.21.22
ii dput 1.1.3
ii git [git-core] 1:2.39.5-0+deb12u2
ii git-buildpackage 0.9.30
ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.22
ii libjson-perl 4.10000-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.430-2
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-5
ii libtext-csv-perl 2.02-2
ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-3
ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-8
ii libwww-curl-perl 4.17-10
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.36.0-7+deb12u1
Versions of packages dgit recommends:
ii distro-info-data 0.58+deb12u3
ii liburi-perl 5.17-1
ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u4
Versions of packages dgit suggests:
ii cowbuilder 0.89
ii pbuilder 0.231
-- no debconf information
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Ben HarrisFrom a5b9ca20c1799776b6632b9766bf1ce36d30824b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Harris <bj...@bjh21.me.uk>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 18:52:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] dgit-user(7): correct "comments" to "commits"
---
dgit-user.7.pod | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/dgit-user.7.pod b/dgit-user.7.pod
index 43ac10c9..1db1df12 100644
--- a/dgit-user.7.pod
+++ b/dgit-user.7.pod
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ there will also be some things in C<debian/patches/>.
It is best to ignore these.
Insofar as they are relevant
the changes there will have been applied to the actual files,
-probably by means of actual comments in the git history.
+probably by means of actual commits in the git history.
The contents of debian/patches are ignored
when building binaries
from dgitish git branches.
--
2.39.5
