[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Packaging workflow onioncircuits

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Sascha Steinbiss:
> I must admit that I have little experience with having (and trying to
> follow) all upstream commits in the upstream branch. […]

> I guess when using an upstream branch tracking the upstream repo, I
> would have to manually pull changes into the upstream branch from the
> upstream repo and tag the relevant signed release commit with
> "upstream/<upstream_version>" for git-buildpackage to pick it up. Then
> merge this tag into master and continue from step four above. Correct?
> Do you know of any automation that might help? Of course, I would be
> happy to learn something new and do things in a way that fits with the
> rest of the team.

I suspect gbp import-orig's --upstream-vcs-tag option is what you want :)

Cheers,
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intrigeri