Bug#833025: dgit: quiltify smash strategy shouldn't fail when current patch queue fails to apply

2016-10-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 pending Sean wrote: > I agree with the general thought. Are you saying you wouldn't > accept a patch adding the smash-all strategy? I've improved the error messages and the docs in this area. I don't think I want to add that new --quilt strategy that you suggest. If that's

Bug#833025: dgit: quiltify smash strategy shouldn't fail when current patch queue fails to apply

2016-08-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 10:42:53AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#833025: dgit: quiltify smash strategy shouldn't > fail when current patch queue fails to apply"): > > I am the maintainer, but I think that there are use cases for a d

Bug#833025: dgit: quiltify smash strategy shouldn't fail when current patch queue fails to apply

2016-08-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#833025: dgit: quiltify smash strategy shouldn't fail when current patch queue fails to apply"): > I am the maintainer, but I think that there are use cases for a dgit > quilt strategy that is essentially a one-shot single-debian-patch. > > Su

Bug#833025: dgit: quiltify smash strategy shouldn't fail when current patch queue fails to apply

2016-07-31 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 11:50:40AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > My concepton of --quilt=smash was to allow an NMUer to generate a > single additional patch out of what in git is a merge (or other > excitement). That makes sense. > > For example, today I merged a new upstream version to a

Bug#833025: dgit: quiltify smash strategy shouldn't fail when current patch queue fails to apply

2016-07-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#833025: dgit: quiltify smash strategy shouldn't fail when current patch queue fails to apply"): > The smash strategy should not fail when the current contents of > debian/patches/ does not apply cleanly to the upstream source. Indeed. > Intui

Bug#833025: dgit: quiltify smash strategy shouldn't fail when current patch queue fails to apply

2016-07-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: dgit Version: 1.4 Severity: normal The smash strategy should not fail when the current contents of debian/patches/ does not apply cleanly to the upstream source. Intuitively, one meaning of the smash strategy is "I know that no sane linearisation can be automatically generated from the