[DRE-maint] Bug#580545: [Svn-bp-devel] Bug#580545: [svn-buildpackage] Tagging with -rBASE might tag the wrong revision

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 09/05/10 at 01:08 +0200, Tobias Grimm wrote:
> PS:
> 
> I've just checked the packages in the ruby-pkg-extras repository and found
>  at least 2 packages where it seems, that the maintainer used
> svn-buildpackage 0.8.0 and tagged a wrong revision:
> 
> May be this gives my point of view, that the tagging behaviour with
> "-rBASE" is a problem, a little bit more weight :-)
> 
> $ export tags=svn+alioth://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-ruby-extras/tags
> 
> $ svn cat $tags/libbarby-ruby/0.3.2-1/debian/changelog | head -n1
> libbarby-ruby (0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
> # 0.3.2-1 != 0.3-1
> 
> $ svn cat $tags/libhaml-ruby/2.2.23-1/debian/changelog | head -n1
> libhaml-ruby (2.2.22-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
> $ svn cat $tags/libhaml-ruby/2.2.24-1/debian/changelog | head -n1
> libhaml-ruby (2.2.23-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
> There might be more packages with wrong tags, but it's hard to find them.

Yeah, I totally concur. This behaviour is super-annoying. You are
changing the semantics of things that have been working for a long time.

- Lucas, who did most of the uploads above