Control: retitle -1 Want different deletion handling in split brain mode
This bug had a confusing title. I think what it is about is this:
I wrote:
> I think what you are saying is that your HEAD ("master", I think) does
> not contain these files. However, the source package that you are
> expecting to generate _does_ contain them, since there is no patch to
> remove them.
...
> I think there are three options:
>
> 1. You could delete the files from the orig tarball (eg by repacking).
>
> 2. You could re-add the files to your master branch.
>
> 3. You could add a quilt patch which deletes them.
>
> 4. dgit could automatically generate a quilt patch which deletes them
> and include it only in the dgit view.
Felipe suggested:
> 5. dgit mimics dpkg-source and ignores deletions and thus adds the
> files back in the dgit view.
Tangentially relevant is this change in dgit 2.13:
Changed behaviour:
* quilt fixup: Permit creation of patches which delete files, by psssing
--include-removal to dpkg-source, and tolerating it when we do our
quilt fixup analysis. dpkg-source has supported this since at least
stretch. Closes:#848901.
Ian.
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