Re: Git branch layout for packages requiring DFSG-cleaning

Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 06:38:14AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
>Yes. Until recently I had a rather ad-hoc setup:
> - ignoring upstream tarballs,
> - not using gbp for importing upstream sources,
> - tracking upstream git as follows: branch `master+dfsg` had
>   DFSG-dubious files removed (compared to the upstream `master`). So
>   with each upstream version I did a manual merge of upstream tag into
>   this branch, before merging it into my packaging branch.

Then per DEP-14 this cleaned up branch should be named upstream/*.

>Hm, I guess there is no way to make this look for a latest upstream tag
>rather than a tarball?

There is, but uscan implies tarballs so it will make a tarball and then gbp 
will import it, they won't merge the tag directly.

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