First check if the package have a special branch for this release. For example it could have a special branch for his packaging

All those operations have to be made onto branch your are making package for eg: 1.2-fixes each one of them inside a ticket with the label release and with a MR

eg: 1.0.9.2-fixes

• First check the the control file contains the latest version, if not

For jessie

• dch -v version_number-1
• dch -r (to change en released)

For wheezy

• dch -c debian/changelog.wheezy -v version_number-1
• dch -r -c debian/changelog.wheezy (to change en released)

Commit your changes

In this case follow the instruction below

• Merge the branch into master

  • git checkout master
  • git merge --no-ff name_of_your_branch
  • git tag -a fusiondirectory-version : commit message "Debian packages for FusionDirectory 1.0.8.x"
  • git push
  • git push --tags

• Remove branch that we just merged

  • git branch -d name_of_your_branch
  • git push origin :name_of_your_branch

• Create the new fixes branch from master

  • git branch name_of_your_branch-fixes
  • git checkout name_of_your_branch-fixes

• push the new created branch to remote depot

  • git push origin name_of_your_branch-fixes