Bug#1127616: developers-reference: should document using git-debpush to upload [and 1 more messages]
Ian Jackson <[email protected]>
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Russ Allbery writes, discussing using dgit: > Everything works exactly like it did when I was using only > git-buildpackage and uploading with dput, except better. I wrote [1]: > The improvements for the maintainer, when switching from dput to dgit, > are not trivial. But, more importantly, dgit push-* is the only way > to publish the source code as git in systematically and reliably > useable and buildable form. That is a real benefit to our users and > downstreams. > > How about a patch that recommends use of dgit for uploads? Holger, in amongst all the heat here, you seem to have missed this question. Ian. [1] In that paragraph I wrote "dgit push-* is the only way ..." but of course I meant to include tag2upload. Anyway, I'm saying we should recommend dgit push. dgit push more obviously avoids the (IMO largely spurious) objections in this thread.