My system upgraded me to this version, and I'm seeing these errors:

jas@frallan:~/dpkg/golang-github-charmbracelet-x$ git-debpush --remote=origin --quilt=unapplied --upstream=upstream/0.0_git20251028.0cf22f8+ds
git-debpush: checking state at git@salsa.debian.org:go-team/packages/golang-github-charmbracelet-x.git
/usr/bin/git-debpush: rad 1017: git-merge-base: kommandot finns inte

I made uploads rather recently with an earlier version and did not see
this, so I believe the error message was introduced recently.

/Simon

Simon Josefsson writes ("Bug#1144142: git-debpush complains about missing 'git-merge-base'"):

Hi.  Thanks for the report.

This seems to be a bug in commit 533683852981
  git-debpush: Push refs/heads/upstream too, when appropriate
which was in dgit 16.4.

I don't know why the tests didn't catch this (and I'm not in a position
to investigate that now).  It WFM locally because I have
/usr/lib/git-core on my personal PATH.

Yes.

I'll upload a fix shortly.  In the meantime downgrading to 16.3 would
help if you can get your apt machinery to do that.

Ian.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dgit, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1144142@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> (supplier of updated dgit package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:25:25 +0100
Source: dgit
Architecture: source
Version: 16.7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian tag2upload Delegates <dgit-owner@debian.org>
Changed-By: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Closes: 1144142
Changes:
 dgit (16.7) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * git-debpush: Call `git merge-base`, not `git-merge-base`.
     [Report from Simon Josefsson]  Closes: #1144142.
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