On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:47:19AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> writes: > > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:19:17 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > And while the binNMU changelog issues might seem like a corner case, > > it's just a symptom of something that's not quite right. > > Also true. In fact, it's something that's been bothering me for a long > time with linked doc directories. I'd like to prohibit them in more cases > so that we get the binNMU changelogs on disk.
Relating to binNMU changelogs: do they really serve any purpose? There are no source changes, so is there any real need for a changelog change at all? AFAICT the only reason we do for historical reasons, it being the only way previously to effect a version change. We briefly discussed on #debian-buildd last week whether it was possible to use --changes-option to override the distribution during building. If it is also possible to override the version of the generated .debs, this would make it possible to rebuild (NMU) without messing around editing the changelog. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120208195447.gi8...@codelibre.net