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Package: dgit
Version: 14.9
Hi, Reinhard. I saw this failure. I think it's due to an unhelpful
behaviour by the tag2upload system (and dgit).
Debian tag2upload service writes ("[tag2upload 3016] irrecoverable
golang-github-containers-image 5.39.1-1"):
> version: 5.39.1-1
...
> target: debian experimental
...
> Package not found in the archive, but has allegedly been pushed using dgit.
> Perhaps the upload is stuck in incoming. Using the version from git.
>
> dgit: split brain (separate dgit view) may be needed (--quilt=gbp).
> dgit view: found cached (commit id 0ab9021fbb5691ec9e43429b5e9994dc145994ea)
> Checking package changelog for archive version 5.38.0+ds2-1 ...
...
> dgit (build host): error: dgit (build host): error: missing field Version in
> parsed changelog
The system is expecting that the changelog entry for the previous
upload to the same suite appears in the new upload. That prevents
accidentally overwriting other people's changes (eg NMUs).
And, by "previous upload" it includes uploads that were done with git
(dgit or tag2upload) and then vanished from the legacy archive. (One
reason for this is that the git history for any particular suite
should be fast forwarding.)
But, in combination, these rules aren't right for experimental.
I'm not sure what the right rules are. One possibility is to say that
the version we should be checking for is the one in sid, if it's newer
than in experimental.
As for what you can do as a workaround:
One option is
dgit fetch rc-buggy
git merge -s ours dgit/dgit/rc-buggy
and then bump the changelog version, and then I think git-debpush
would succeed. But you may not wish to include this extraneous stuff
in your git history.
Another option would be to run git-deborig and dgit push-source
locally. You may need to write
dgit --overwrite=5.38.0+ds2-1 push-source
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Ian.
PS: See also #1109584 which is about backports, which has a similar
kind of problem. I haven't thought through the situation carefully
enough to know whether the same fix will work for both cases.
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Source: dgit
Source-Version: 15.3
Done: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dgit, 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.
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:20:43 +0100
Source: dgit
Architecture: source
Version: 15.3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian tag2upload Delegates <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>
Closes: 1129641
Changes:
dgit (15.3) unstable; urgency=medium
.
Bugfixe:
* dgit: Handle experimental specially. Closes: #1129641.
.
Minor improvements:
* dgit: Correct tense of a message
* dgit: dgit -D fetch no longer outputs listing of historical tags.
.
tag2upload development:
* Install ca-certificates as well as curl in t2u-integration test (fix CI).
* Deposit copies of t2u upload signing key from Oracle and Builder image
to Manager. Part of #1130653.
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