Merge cheat sheet

Merging series

The article series provides guidance on performing package merges.

Process overview:
How to do a merge:

  1. Preliminary steps

  2. Merge process

  3. Fix the changelog

  4. Upload a PPA

  5. Test the new build

  6. Submit Merge Proposal

Extra:

Steps of the merge procedure

  1. rmadison <package_name>

  2. rmadison -u debian <package_name>

  3. git ubuntu clone <package_name> <package_name>-gu

  4. cd <package_name>-gu

  5. git ubuntu merge start pkg/ubuntu/devel

  6. git checkout -b merge-<version_of_debian_unstable>-<current_ubuntu_devel_name>

  7. git log --stat old/debian..

  8. git ubuntu tag --split (if there’s nothing to split, type that command straight away)

  9. git rebase -i old/debian

  10. Drop metadata changes and reorder/merge/split commits.

  11. git diff split/

  12. git ubuntu tag --logical

  13. git show logical/<version> (check if the new tag exists)

  14. git rebase -i --onto new/debian old/debian

  15. quilt push -a --fuzz=0

  16. quilt pop -a

  17. git ubuntu merge finish pkg/ubuntu/devel

Further reading