RFS: audacious/3.6.2-2~bpo8+1 and audacious-plugins/3.6.2-2~bpo8+1

[Mateusz Łukasik]

On 02.05.2016 02:06 +0200, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> On 29 April 2016 at 22:42, Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 07:55:29PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>>> But you said you preferred it to be pushed with just a tag!
>>
>> yes, but not in master!
>> A tag is always wanted in any case, with "just a tag" I was meaning a
>> tag that is not in any branch, try having a look at some package of mine
>> with a backport (like pbuilder, diffoscope, s3fs-fuse,...), you'll see
>> that there is a bpo tag, but the commit referenced by that tag is not in
>> any branch.
>> But I can easily see how this can be confusing/hard, so a
>> jessie-backports tag is just a very good way to deal with it! :)
>>
>>> So you wanted me to detach from the master branch with: git checkout
>>> master^ before making changes?
>>
>> git checkout master^ would bring you to whatever is right before master
>> (what's so special about the second-last commit on master?)
>> You should make sure that you are on the commit describing the uploaded
>> package, which not always is what is pointed by master.
>> So probably here I'd say that you should do `git checkout debian/3.7.2-1`
>> (or whatever version you are backporting) before doing anything
>>
>>> And when the next version of the package hits stable I'd git checkout
>>> master && git checkout master^ ?
>>
>> erm?  Can't understand what you mean here (1/ "hits stable" is very much
>> something not real 2/ `git checkout master && git checkout master^`
>> looks very fishy, what would do that?)
>
> This is question I've been trying to answer:  How do you detach from
> HEAD?  I read a possibly obsolete article that said to add the caret
> symbol at the end of the branch do do this.  Is this not the case?  Is
> it rather "git checkout master^0"?  And in this case, isn't it more
> appropriate to to do "git checkout --detach debian/3.7.2-1".
>


I will fix that.

The best way is creating jessie branch and prepare backport there.

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