Bug#802503: debcommit: Mention ~ in tag message, not .

[Nicholas Bamber]

Julian,
	I would be happy to take ownership of this, but I would rather any work 
on it did not hold up the next release of devscripts.

On 12/12/15 10:25, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:29:00PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>> Control: reassign -1 devscripts
>> Control: retitle -1 debcommit: Mention ~ in tag message, not .
>>
>> devscripts maintainer: For compatibility reasons with gbp buildpackage,
>> please do not mangle the version in the tag message, that is, use
>>
>> git tag -s -m 'tagging package apt version 1.1~exp15' '1.1.exp15'
>>                                                ^ see here
>> instead of
>>
>> git tag -s -m 'tagging package apt version 1.1.exp15' '1.1.exp15'
>>
>
> Any update on that? With the ., gbp cannot identify the tag
> correctly. It's also pointless to escape in the message
> anyway.
>