Hello, On Wed 14 May 2025 at 03:33pm +01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#1105759: git-debpush upstream tag confusion"):
>> git-deborig has had this behaviour for a long time and it might be worth
>> revisiting it. Perhaps it is being too cautious: perhaps it should
>> always prefer an upstream/NN tag to NN or vNN if there is an upstream/NN
>> present. How about that?
>
> This seems contrary to the key principle that it is better to stop
> with an error, doing nothing, than to risk doing the wrong thing.
True.
> We could check if these tags all refer to the same commit.
Yes, that would make sense, but it would probably help only a minority
of cases. You create the upstream/NN tag because the vNN tag doesn't
point to the right place (e.g. you've done an gbp import-orig on top of
it).
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Sean Whitton
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