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Re: Debianized upstream source branch name

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From Aeliton Silva <aeliton@aeliton.com>
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Subject Re: Debianized upstream source branch name
Date Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:30:01 +0100
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Aeliton G. Silva

> On 18 Nov 2025, at 13:46, Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 01:33:16PM -0300, Aeliton G. Silva wrote:
>> Thanks Thomas, This shed some light on what I read at [1](see NOTE
>> under "For development releases"), quoting it here:
>> 
>> "NOTE: If the Git repository listed in debian/control's Vcs-Git field
>> does not indicate an explicit branch (with the -b <branch> suffix) then
>> it should have its HEAD point to the branch where new upstream versions
>> are being packaged (that is one of the branches associated to a
>> development release)..."
>> 
>> So the complete answer to me
> 
> To what question, again? Your initial email asks about a disrepancy in two documents, but it, again, doesn't describe what you actually want to know.
> 

Apologies for not being clear. The question is how to identify which branch should be considered the debianized upstream branch for a given project.

>> right now would be:
>> 1) The branch stated in debian/control Vcs-Git; or
>> 2) If branch not stated,
>>    2.1. Check the default branch in salsa; or
>>    2.2. use 'git ls-remote --symref <repo> HEAD', as it should be
>> pointing to the branch desired branch (as Peter suggested).
>> 
>> Is this the correct understanding?
> 
> Probably, depends on the problem you are solving.
> 
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