Comment 2 for bug 249781

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 249781] Re: debrelease doesn't tag and ensure source only build

On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 08:46 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> I don't agree that debrelease should have primary responsibility for
> creating a tag. This is the job of 'debcommit --release' (usual workflow
> is hack; debcommit; hack; debcommit; dch -r; debcommit --release;
> debrelease -S). That said, it would be fair enough for debrelease either
> to refuse to upload if you haven't committed everything in your tree and
> tagged it, or to offer to run 'debcommit --release' for you.

Oh. Well, by all means we should stay with the workflow people expect
from deb* tools. Still, it seems _weird_ to me that debcommit
--release != debcommit + debrelease.

-Rob

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