note the debian/stretch-backports branch

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 5c38d00acb2fdebb9176308740800e8b442bd0d4..c0e7533454bb9330eae8361297fcdbae57623cba 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Build-Depends:
  bash-completion (>=1.9.0~)
 Standards-Version: 4.1.3
 Homepage: https://notmuchmail.org/
-Vcs-Git: git://notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch
+Vcs-Git: git://notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch -b debian/stretch-backports
 Vcs-Browser: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch
 
 Package: notmuch

diff --git a/debian/gbp.conf b/debian/gbp.conf
index 6cb451a455e112ea8236161002887113a598b32f..4f1e94fd05fa8b7e80a8d4416eb2234901aa07b5 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/gbp.conf
+++ b/debian/gbp.conf
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 upstream-branch = master
 
 # The default branch for the debian patch (no patch in our case)
-debian-branch = master
+debian-branch = debian/stretch-backports
 
 # Directory for performing the build
 export-dir = ./debian-build