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Bug#1033187: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage bissect will be helpful for regression testing

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On Sun, 2023-03-19 at 08:14:08 +0000, Bastien Roucariès wrote:
> Package: dpkg-dev
> Version: 1.21.21
> Severity: minor

> Do not know if it is the right place but a dpkg-buildpackage bissection tool
> that will allow to bissect the debian/patches queue will be helpful.
> 
> I know git bissect but sometime it is useful to have tool insteaf of manually
> bissect patch queue by adding # to debian/patches/series

Hmm, I could see this being a new dpkg-source action perhaps (like in
git but for source packages), but doing this in dpkg-buildpackage would
complicate it too much I think (and reminds me of an old request to
support building N times in a row, which was rejected for similar
reasons).

Thanks,
Guillem

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Bug#1033187: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage bissect will be helpful for regression testing Bastien Roucariès <rouca@debian.org> - 2023-03-19 09:20 +0100
  Bug#1033187: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage bissect will be helpful for regression testing Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2023-06-09 04:30 +0200

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