From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 22:58:56 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: changelog: Document empirical effectiveness of new gnupg workaround
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changelog: Document empirical effectiveness of new gnupg workaround

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 96a9e625..c2a41231 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 dgit (5.6~) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Merge the experimental branch containing the fianl
-    version of the test suite gnupg workarounds.
+    version of the test suite gnupg workarounds.  Empirically,
+      - The tests now pass (most of the time, at least) in
+        current Debian unstable, whereas 5.5's fail utterly.
+      - There is still occasional lossage.  So when running tests
+        in a loop (eg to test ever commit), it is still good to set
+        DGIT_TEST_RETRY_COUNT=3 (say).
 
   * test suite: Test that manpages format with only expected warnings.