[Pkg-puppet-devel] Testing new option for "git import-orig", --upstream-vcs-tag

[Russ Allbery]

Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm at debian.org> writes:

> For the experimental facter releases, I've tested importing the source
> tarballs using the "--upstream-vcs-tag" option.

> When the packaging repo also has the git://github.com/puppetlabs/facter
> repo as remote, the tag from that repository is linked as parent of the
> tarball import. If a packaging repository does not have that remote,
> there should be no change.

> This makes the push emails from alioth more detailed, but it should also
> enable us to see if a given commit is included in a debian release, when
> using git query tools.

> Any thoughts about this?

I'm not directly involved in the day-to-day packaging and therefore don't
really have a say in this, but I'll chime in (as one of the people who
asked for this option to git-buildpackage) and say that I've started using
this for all of my packages with a Git upstream and love it.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>