On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:50:46AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Bastian Blank writes ("Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#450638: Rebuild fails even if
> only debian/changelog updated"):
> > Build-dependencies are for building the package, not changing it. It is
> > not really documented what is needed to change it.
> I have to say that I find this quite a surprising response. The
> purpose of being able to build the package is so that one can make
> and use changes.
No. The purpose of this formal package descriptions is to allow someone
to build the package.
> That's the whole point of Free Software, surely ?
This is about formalisms.
> In any case, the package will not work if it needs to be bin-NMUd (ie,
> rebuilt), because adding a changelog entry without making any changes
> is exactly what the buildds do in that case.
BinNMUs follows other rules: the version matches \+b\d+$. The relevant
code is available but currently not commited into xen-3.
> I think the package should be buildable even after changes, and that
> the Build-Depends should specify all of the necessary parts for that.
No. Do you expect that a package which uses automake is rebuildable
after a change of a Makefile.am without pulling in automake? It is not
needed for an unchanged rebuild.
Bastian
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