Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.2 Severity: normal Hi,
When using the new 3.0 (git) package format, I may have a repository which contains many branches, both upstream and debian. I may have several branches for debian packaging (for example) stable, stable-security, unstable, experimental, backports, ubuntu etc. Currently, I'm not aware of any means of specifying the branch which should be used. When using dpkg-source to unpack, it should check out the appropriate branch, but needs telling which branch this is, and the only viable choice for that information is in the DSC. It would be great if dpkg-source could check for the presence of such a field (defaulting to "master" or "debian" if absent), and then check this branch out. The information could be placed in debian/source/... or in debian/control. I'm not sure which would be more appropriate. When initially creating the package it would also need to place this information into the DSC along with the format version. Regards, Roger -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (550, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg 1.15.2 Debian package management system ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii make 3.81-6 An utility for Directing compilati ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl [perl5] 5.10.0-23 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.10.0-23 Core Perl modules Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.3.3-9 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.3 [c-compiler] 4.3.3-12 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.4 [c-compiler] 4.4.0-9 The GNU C compiler ii gnupg 1.4.9-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii gpgv 1.4.9-4 GNU privacy guard - signature veri Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: ii debian-keyring 2009.05.28 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D ii debian-maintainers 1.61 GPG keys of Debian maintainers -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
