Hi, On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Guillem Jover wrote: > > This allows us to get rid of the special-casing of bin-nmu in dpkg where > > we only support one extension (+bX). > > > > We have many other cases where it would be helpful to be able to do such > > binary-only rebuild in different environments and where it might be > > interesting to share the same source package. > > If the main purpose of this is to generalize the binNMU versioning > syntax then instead of entangling these different issues I think it's > way better to mark the changelog entry as such, so that there's actual > generic metadata that can be used by the tools, that does not need to > change the debian/changelog interface, neither modify other possible > parsers to look into different files, etc.
OK, that looks a reasonable approach for this need. But then it doesn't help with the short term problem of bin-nmus and changelogs. We don't have many solutions, and none is perfect. They should all be considered as temporary measures until we have implemented storage of changelog in control.tar.gz: 1/ we modify dpkg to ignore differences on /usr/share/doc/*/changelog.*gz for multi-arch: same packages 2/ we modify dh_installchangelogs to strip the entries marked "binary-only" for packages which are multi-arch same (this doesn't help packages that are not using debhelper but it's probably not a big deal) > I've just cooked code to support this in dpkg, an example entry could > look like this (the binary-only key could be named something else): Can you push your preliminary code to your personal repo? I'd be interested to complete the work if you don't have the time. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- 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/20120612110957.gb31...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
