On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 05:29, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Oh. There might be a misunderstanding: No binary package is taken from > debian, only source packages. This means that EVERY package is being > rebuilt in ubuntu on buildds, including arch: all packages. The output > of apt-cache shows the field 'Origin' to indicate that this is not a > package built on debian systems.
Ubuntu does NOT set the origin in its packages: # dpkg -s dpkg | egrep -i '(origin|version):' Origin: debian Version: 1.13.10ubuntu4 # apt can be a useful tool but it tells you where it knows a package can be found, not the actual origin of an installed package: # dpkg -i --force-all xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_i386.deb (snip) # apt-cache show xli | grep -i origin: Origin: Ubuntu # > If I understand your proposal correctly, you propose to introduce > binNMU like versioning on ALL nondiverged packages (again, the source > package is identical!). This seem not feasible because of practical > problems. What practical problems? DDs can increment the two-dot version on a binary NMU. Why can't Ubuntu's copy-sources-from-debian script do the same? > btw, the 'buildX' packages do change the source package, but by > policy, only debian/changelog is touched, to increase the version > number of the package. What please is the difference between a buildX package and all the other packages that were rebuilt without the buildX annotation? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
