[git-buildpackage] GBP import-orig and debian/changelog

[Guido Günther]

Hi Guillaume,
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 03:31:06PM +0000, Guillaume Millet wrote:
> Hi Guido,
> 
> Sorry to bother you, but I have a question about the import-orig command of gbp.

Sorry for the late reply. I just hit it by accident in my spam folder.

> 
> The documentation states:
> "This puts the upstream sources onto the upstream-branch and tags them accordingly (the default tag format is upstream/%(version)s). The result is then merged onto the debian-branch, and a new Debian changelog entry is created." (http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.html).
> However, when I import a new upstream archive into my repository, the debian/changelog file is not modified.
> Am I missing something?

The documentation is plain wrong here. You can use a postimport command
to achieve that but it's not done by default. I've updated the docs in
git.

Cheers,
 -- Guido