Clarify the manpage's comments about orig tarballs. Closes: #723605.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7acc8ed3e85447bd9cd738ca10d691d0e2ad47d2..ad20088095602ea2a2841b279d6fe40d3375e674 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ dgit (0.17~experimental4) experimental; urgency=low
   * When using sbuild, pass the arguments to mergechanges in the right
     order so that we use the correct Description (the _source one,
     not the one from sbuild which didn't get e.g. -v<version>).
   * When using sbuild, pass the arguments to mergechanges in the right
     order so that we use the correct Description (the _source one,
     not the one from sbuild which didn't get e.g. -v<version>).

+  * Clarify the manpage's comments about orig tarballs.  Closes: #723605.

 
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diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index c261300f555bd92a3a5c53184edd66ed9a7f28bb..c3caa496a42128787ccdb64b38db0fc66f4fef1e 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -481,10 +481,11 @@ remote.  This refers to the well-known dgit-repos location
 (currently, the dgit-repos project on Alioth).  dgit fetch updates
 the remote tracking branch for dgit/suite.
 
 (currently, the dgit-repos project on Alioth).  dgit fetch updates
 the remote tracking branch for dgit/suite.
 

-dgit does not (currently) represent the orig tarball(s) in git; nor
-does it represent the patch statck of a `3.0 (quilt)' package.  The
-orig tarballs are downloaded and kept in the parent directory, as with
-a traditional (non-gitish) dpkg-source workflow.
+dgit does not (currently) represent the orig tarball(s) in git.  The
+orig tarballs are downloaded (by dgit clone) into the parent
+directory, as with a traditional (non-gitish) dpkg-source workflow.
+You need to retain these tarballs in the parent directory for dgit
+build and dgit push.

 
 To a user looking at the archive, changes pushed using dgit look like
 changes made in an NMU: in a `3.0 (quilt)' package the delta from the
 
 To a user looking at the archive, changes pushed using dgit look like
 changes made in an NMU: in a `3.0 (quilt)' package the delta from the