Bug#848677: dgit: add upstream remote

2018-06-18 Thread Sean Whitton
control: reassign -1 devscripts control: retitle -1 Script to automatically create upstream git remote Hello, On Mon, Jun 18 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean writes: >> dgit could check the DEP-12 metadata first, and fall back to looking >> at the Source: field in d/copyright. It would probably

Bug#848677: dgit: add upstream remote

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean writes: > dgit could check the DEP-12 metadata first, and fall back to looking > at the Source: field in d/copyright. It would probably need to verify > that the URI in either of these fields is actually a git remote. The problem with this is that it might cause dgit clone to fail, or be unr

Bug#848677: dgit: add upstream remote

2016-12-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: dgit Version: 2.11 Severity: wishlist Similar to the vcs-git remote, it would be nice if dgit could try to add an upstream remote. This makes it easy to merge new upstream releases, e.g. % git remote update % git verify-tag 1.2.3 % git merge 1.2.3 % dch -v1.2.3-1 New ups