#599146 git-buildpackage: gbp-pq should deal with unknown fields more gracefully

Package:
git-buildpackage
Source:
git-buildpackage
Submitter:
David Bremner
Date:
2020-12-27 14:21:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#599146#5
Date:
2010-10-05 03:12:17 UTC
From:
To:
Currently gbp-import silently drops unknown header fields. This is
problematic for the proposed DEP3 header, which allows more fields
than From, Date, and Subject.  Minimally it should complain that
information loss is occuring.  A nicer solution might be to extra
headers to the end of the commit message after a blank line. This
would be consistent with DEP3 and the usual git convention for things
like Signed-off-by.
#599146#10
Date:
2010-10-16 17:26:07 UTC
From:
To:
Hi David,
sorry for the late reply.
Yes, that sucks. It's caused by gbp-pq using "git quilt-import" for the
import. We have to get rid of git-quilt-import due to other bugs like
#592129. The plan is to rewrite gbp-pq in python (like the other
helpers) and to invoke "git apply" directly so we can preserve all the
header information (and the patch names).
It's not that much work but I didn't get around to it yet so help on
this would be welcome.
Cheers,
 -- Guido
#599146#15
Date:
2010-10-17 13:08:56 UTC
From:
To:
http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ the header fields are preserved by git
quilt-import.
Cheers,
 -- Guido
#599146#20
Date:
2020-04-24 22:35:03 UTC
From:
To:
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:08:56 +0200 Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= < agx@sigxcpu.org> wrote:
is
fields
the
like
git

Note that while this format (the additional fields after the
description) is left alone by gbp-pq, it is rearranged by edits by cme
(libconfig-model-dpkg-perl) which places all the DEP-3 fields at the top
of the patchfile.
#599146#25
Date:
2020-12-27 14:19:29 UTC
From:
To:
Any progress on preserving DEP-3 fields, like Applied-Upstream or
Forwarded, when used before the description?