On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 07:17:28PM +0200, Marcos Fouces wrote: > > > If you add some more commits, you can add them as patches in > > > d/patches > > > and refer it in d/changelog. > > > > Or just release a new version? Or do you mean cherry-picking later > > commits? > > > > Yes, you can cherry-pick all the commits you want and add them to > d/patches. I am thinking about forks on Github that could also contains > interestings commits. > > This kind of situation would be near to imposible to reflect this way.
Yes, indeed; I wasn't imagining trying to contain that information in the version number. I was thinking of keeping the short commit id in the upstream version number to help identify the commit that is stored in the .orig.tar; everything in the d/patches is applied to that commit. Best wishes, Julian
