This is a useful convention to distinguish actual upstream tags from
upstream tarball-representing tags created by the Debian package
maintainer.
Note that use of this convention is already recommended in section
"Using untagged upstream commits".
This is part of #932954.
Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
[DEFAULT]
upstream-branch = upstream
debian-branch = master
- upstream-tag = %(version)s
+ upstream-tag = upstream/%(version)s
sign-tags = True
pristine-tar = False
=back
+replacing I<1.2.3> with I<upstream/1.2.3> if you imported a tarball.
+
This invocation of git-debrebase(1) involves a git rebase. You may
need to resolve conflicts if the Debian delta queue does not apply
cleanly to the new upstream source.
[DEFAULT]
upstream-branch = upstream
debian-branch = master
- upstream-tag = %(version)s
+ upstream-tag = upstream/%(version)s
sign-tags = True
pristine-tar = False
=back
+In the following, replace I<1.2.3> with I<upstream/1.2.3>.
+
=head2 Reviewing & merging the release
It's a good idea to preview the merge of the new upstream release.