Hello, On Sun 20 Jul 2025 at 01:39pm +01, Colin Watson wrote:
> Package: git-debpush > Version: 13.9 > Severity: wishlist > > For -backports uploads, I normally prefer to retain only the > backports-specific changelog entry for the most recent round of backports, in > order to avoid cluttering the changelog with lots of entries that just say > "Rebuild for bookworm-backports". I accept that this may be a personal quirk, > but https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index3h2 seems to at least > suggest it, and I don't think it's terribly unusual. > > However, this caused git-debpush to fail with "error: missing field Version in > parsed changelog". I retried with "dgit -v0.11.1 push-source" and that worked > fine, but git-debpush seems to have no equivalent option. Perhaps one could > be added? We should definitely support not including the old backports entries as lots of people do backports that way, and it's a reasonable workflow. I think we should avoid burdening the user with having to pass a -v option. This should be handled automatically. Ian, what about a more limited version of #1106266 that applies only to certain suites where overwriting is normal, such as backports? -- Sean Whitton
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