[git-buildpackage] debian-branch vs. git-debian-branch

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Jan 22 16:10:06 CET 2016


On Fri 2016-01-22 05:51:21 -0500, Guido Günther wrote:
> It seems extra space confuses Python's config parser:
>
>> 
>> 0 dkg at alice:~/src/libreswan/libreswan$ cat debian/gbp.conf 
>> [ DEFAULT ]
>    ^       ^
>
> If I add space in my config parsing breaks, removing the space fixes
> it. So
>
> [DEFAULT]
>
>> pristine-tar = True
>> upstream-branch = master
>> upstream-vcs-tag = v%(version)s
>> debian-branch=debian
>
> should work. Does it?

Sigh, yes it does.  Well, that's embarrassing!

Hopefully me sending my PEBKAC to the public mailing list will help the
next person who makes this mistake figure it out by searching the
archive :/

Thanks for your time and help debugging here, Guido.

        --dkg


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