On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Guillem Jover wrote: > > If multiple backports (for different target distributions) can be built > > from the same source version, it would be preferrable to only keep one > > copy of the sources, for that to work, the binary packages need to point > > to an explicit source version number that cannot be deduced from the > > changelog. > > What you describe is a binNMU but with a different suffix. Maybe we > could come up with a generic syntax for binNMU-style versions, which > could include backports and the like. Although I'm not sure this is
We could add a --bin-nmu option to dpkg-buildpackage that would set an environment variable indicating that it's a bin-nmu and the various dpkg-* tools would act accordingly. They would get the source version from the previous changelog entry instead of the current one. How does that sound ? --bin-nmu would be incompatible with -S or full build, it would auto-imply -b if nothing is specified. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
