[git-buildpackage] [ANNOUNCE] git-buildpackage 0.9.38

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
I'm happy to announce the release of git-buildpackage 0.9.38:

    https://git.sigxcpu.org/cgit/git-buildpackage/tag/?id=debian/0.9.38

Here's a list of changes:

git-buildpackage (0.9.38) unstable; urgency=medium
.
  [ Otto Kekäläinen ]
  * [b15709f] config: Enable 'multimaint-merge' by default.
    There are currently 735 packages[1] that default to 'True' for this
    option and seems most no maintainer would manually write a
    debian/changelog with the same maintainer repeated, so this would be a
    better default.
    Also, devscripts itself recently changed this and will have it enabled
    by default in version 2.25.1+.
  * [f7ce004] docs: Add diagram to manual to help readers grasp the DEP-14 branches.
.
  [ Andrew Kreimer ]
  * [b44226e] docs: fix typos.
.
  [ Guido Günther ]
  * [89b0995] ci: Run codespell. We run it on th doc folder.
  * [a6f65c1] docs: Mention DCO.Hopefully we get more commits with
    `Signed-off-by:`.
  * [2a30c7a] import-orig: Keep upstream branch on initial import.
    When importing a new package we want to keep both upstream and debian
    branch as otherwise the user has an extra manual step of recreating the
    branch.
  * [091b811] docs: Modernize creating a new package.  With upcoming support
    for gbp.conf in dh_make let's modernize the docs a bit and use `*/latest`
    there too.
  * [462d5f7] clone: Ensure attribute changes are applied past clone.
    This makes sure changes due to the added gitattributes take effect in
    the checkout. This helps e.g. kotlin wich otherwise has
      $ git status
      [..snip..]
      Changes not staged for commit:
      (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
      (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
    	modified:   compiler/cli/bin/kapt.bat
    	modified:   compiler/cli/bin/kotlin-dce-js.bat
    	modified:   compiler/cli/bin/kotlin.bat
    	modified:   compiler/cli/bin/kotlinc-js.bat
    	modified:   compiler/cli/bin/kotlinc-jvm.bat
    	modified:   compiler/cli/bin/kotlinc.bat
    after
       gbp clone vcsgit:kotlin
    Helps: #1092800
  * [ed0bb53] tests: Check that git attributes are disarmed.
    Add a test for
       462d5f75 ("clone: Ensure attribute changes are applied past clone")
    to ensure git attributes aren't applied and the working copy stays
    clean. Based on bits from !38 by Julien Plissonneau Duquène
  * [6512a0d] changelog: Don't capture dch's stderr.  Otherwise we'll never
    see it
.
  [ Gioele Barabucci ]
  * [7beb71e] buildpackage: Allow both DEP-14 and DEP14 as values for `dist`
  * [67baaae] Consistently use DEP-X in documentation and error messages.
    The consensus on debian-devel is that "DEP-X" should be preferred
    to "DEPX" and "DEP X".
    See: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/11/msg00141.html
.
  [ Richard Hansen ]
  * [69afa42] packaging: Bump Python version for `type` statement.
    The `type` statement was added in Python 3.12.
  * [ec76596] packaging: Remove unused python3-filelock dependency.
    This reverts commit 5155e98b3cac28a32f20ac369e28e9fa78676fd4.
  * [240fbb4] packaging: Mark test build dependencies as !nocheck
  * [971d253] packaging: Fix python3-notify2 suggestion for git-buildpackage-rpm
  * [117f3ed] build: Drop exact version requirement for flake8
    v3.5.0 hasn't been supported since at least Python 3.9.
  * [7b6408a] build: Change coverage dependency to pytest-cov.
    Testing fails if pytest-cov isn't installed.
  * [b4e2e8f] build: Add missing requirements to requirements.txt
  * [ebd478d] build: Add a venv target to Makefile for convenience
  * [f251b86] build: Make it easier to override python executable in Makefile.
    Now users can do `make PYTHON=python3.12` to force a particular
    version of Python if desired.
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  [ Julien Plissonneau Duquène ]
  * [a738315] Pass --download-version to uscan

Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release. As usual the
package is available via Debian unstable:

    https://packages.debian.org/sid/git-buildpackage

Cheers,
 -- Guido