Hello. I see "serious" bug reports asking for packages to drop "dh_installdocs --link-doc" (see Bug #799316 for an example).
However, binNMUs break the reproducibility of the packages being NMUed, since apparently the requirement of providing the *exact* source code that was used for the *.deb is "relaxed" for the packages being NMUed. I wonder: Instead of forbidding "dh_installdocs --link-doc", which I consider a useful feature that should not be dropped lightly, why don't we just do source-full NMUs that do not change anything? We could just append a .0 to the Debian version, so that foo 1.0-1 becomes 1.0-1.0 and allow the maintainer to skip this release from the changelog for 1.0-2 (as we already do for the current binNMU suffixes). Maybe I'm missing anything, but why do we *need* to break existing dh_installdocs practice? Thanks.
