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and subject line Bug#1030044: fixed in git-buildpackage 0.9.39
has caused the Debian Bug report #1030044,
regarding gbp-pq: Unreproducible and noisy patches due to different diff
settings/algorithms
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Package: git-buildpackage
Version: 0.9.30
Dear maintainers of git-buildpackage,
The patches exported by `gbp-pq` can be wildly different depending on
the value set in the git option `diff.algorithm`.
Thus packages where co-maintainers happen to use different
`diff.algorithm` values undergo a lot of unneeded "diff churn", making
it impossible to follow the history of the Debian-specific patches.
This issue can be fixed by forcing the use of a specific diff algorithm
inside `gbp-pq`, for example by using `--diff-algorithm=histogram` in
`gbp.git.Repository.diff`.
Another setting that can reduce diff churn and should be forced by
`gbp-pq` is `diff.rename`, that should be set to `copies`.
Regards,
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Gioele Barabucci
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: git-buildpackage
Source-Version: 0.9.39
Done: Guido Günther <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
git-buildpackage, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Guido Günther <[email protected]> (supplier of updated git-buildpackage package)
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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:46:25 +0100
Source: git-buildpackage
Architecture: source
Version: 0.9.39
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Guido Günther <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Guido Günther <[email protected]>
Closes: 1030044 1100809 1111340 1116741 1119013
Changes:
git-buildpackage (0.9.39) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Richard Hansen ]
* [13517bc] run-in-container: Properly quote parameter expansion.
It's unclear why the comment "re-splitting command arguments
intentional" was added; nothing about the invocation of the function
suggests that it was intentional.
* [1b15033] run-in-container: Upgrade packages in image
* [8a89b3e] run-in-container: Install image packages noninteractively
* [5910d59] run-in-container: Reduce image size by deleting downloaded
packages
* [2589dcc] run-in-container: Run the full test suite
* [d79afe7] run-in-container: Skip test that fails when run as root
* [bcccae1] run-in-container: Bump example release to trixie
* [181ad5b] run-in-container: Build the package during run, not image build
* [0755e09] pq tests: Fix reading of patch file.
Reading a file that has already been read to EOF returns the empty
string, so the second check was always trivially true.
* [d8ec910] GitRepository diff: Remove `=` from `-M` argument.
Git's documentation says that the option has the form `-M[<n>]`, not
`-M[=<n>]`.
* [e6e5ee9] GitRepository diff: Add copy detection support.
This commit does not enable copy or rename detection (no behavior
changes are expected); it only adds the infrastructure needed to
enable copy detection in a future commit.
* [05a71f0] pq: Create rename and copy patches when exporting.
This produces smaller patches that are easier to review and easier to
refresh by devs that don't use git-buildpackage.
The quilt utility wraps patch, and GNU patch has supported Git's diff
features such as renames and copies since 2.7, released Sep 2012:
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/tree/NEWS?h=v2.7#n6>
Note: dpkg-source (specifically, Dpkg::Source::Patch) logs the
following warning with a rename-only patch (see #749070), but such
patches appear to be applied properly.
(Closes: #1100809)
* [34a63bf] GitRepository diff: Force diff algorithm for consistency
(Closes: #1030044)
.
[ Guido Günther ]
* [df5a12a] tests: Fetch test data from salsa.
Avoids a dependency on an external system that can fail.
* [5262ada] clone: Add some type annotations
* [17580fc] clone: Be less strict on vcs-git URLs.
This allows URLs that specify `-b <branch>` to
be matched. We don't care about the branch information
yet though as we take that from gbp.conf.
* [17d2826] Wrap and sort
* [5cf9a8d] import-orig: Be more helpful when invoking uscan with a version
* [7d509bf] uscan: Retry with --download-debversion if --download-version
failed. Otherwise using this in scripts that merely get the target Debian
version becomes really cumbersome
* [aaeb20a] tests: Switch download URLs to salsa.
This leaves merely the uscan test
.
[ Julien Plissonneau Duquène ]
* [69ccb15] Add a missing test dependency
* [6ebc8cd] Promote Standards-Version to 4.7.2 with no changes
.
[ Hannes von Haugwitz ]
* [68768a2] buildpackage: Fix build directory removal condition
* fixes regression in 005676a (buildpackage: Make sure export_dir is
always set)
* Closes: #1111340
.
[ Santiago Vila ]
* [cad78d8] Fix FTBFS with the nocheck build profile (Closes: #1116741)
.
[ Carles Pina i Estany ]
* [158f0db] Remove unused Suggests (not existing in Debian) "mock" package
(Closes: #1119013)
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