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Bug#1105759: git-debpush upstream tag confusion

From Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1105759: git-debpush upstream tag confusion
Date 2025-05-14 16:40 +0200
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Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#1105759: git-debpush upstream tag confusion"):
> git-deborig has had this behaviour for a long time and it might be worth
> revisiting it.  Perhaps it is being too cautious: perhaps it should
> always prefer an upstream/NN tag to NN or vNN if there is an upstream/NN
> present.  How about that?

This seems contrary to the key principle that it is better to stop
with an error, doing nothing, than to risk doing the wrong thing.

We could check if these tags all refer to the same commit.

Ian.

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Bug#1105759: git-debpush upstream tag confusion Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2025-05-14 16:00 +0200
  Bug#1105759: git-debpush upstream tag confusion Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2025-05-14 16:20 +0200
    Bug#1105759: git-debpush upstream tag confusion Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-05-14 16:40 +0200
      Bug#1105759: git-debpush upstream tag confusion Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-05-14 16:50 +0200
  Bug#1105759: git-debpush upstream tag confusion Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-05-14 16:20 +0200
  Bug#1105759: git-debpush upstream tag confusion Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-05-14 16:40 +0200
    Bug#1105759: git-debpush upstream tag confusion Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-05-14 16:50 +0200

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