Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.11 Severity: important Hi,
After prepearing new upstream version of man2html I run debdiff on the old and new *.dsc files and the resulted patch was COMPLETELY USELESS. [130]> /usr/bin/debdiff man2html_1.6e-3.dsc man2html_1.6f-1.dsc |wc 59770 264454 1822181 [131]> /usr/bin/debdiff man2html_1.6e-3.dsc man2html_1.6f-1.dsc | grep catopen/README diff -Nru /tmp/5RPqwreIox/man2html-1.6e/man-1.6e/catopen/README /tmp/WY5cre995T/man2html-1.6f/man-1.6e/catopen/README --- /tmp/5RPqwreIox/man2html-1.6e/man-1.6e/catopen/README 2005-08-21 01:26:06.000000000 +0200 +++ /tmp/WY5cre995T/man2html-1.6f/man-1.6e/catopen/README 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 diff -Nru /tmp/5RPqwreIox/man2html-1.6e/man-1.6f/catopen/README /tmp/WY5cre995T/man2html-1.6f/man-1.6f/catopen/README --- /tmp/5RPqwreIox/man2html-1.6e/man-1.6f/catopen/README 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ /tmp/WY5cre995T/man2html-1.6f/man-1.6f/catopen/README 2005-08-21 01:26:06.000000000 +0200 I think you can reproduce the bug on most source packages which contain *.tar.gz tarballs (tzdata is one of exceptions). Fortunatelly there's a typo in debdiff which prevents *.tar.bz2 tarballs for being unpacked. Best Regards, robert - System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23 Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/pdksh Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.28.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg-dev 1.14.14 package building tools for Debian ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.5-5 The GNU sed stream editor Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii fakeroot 1.8.10 Gives a fake root environment -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
