On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter van Rossum wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:56:29PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > > If you're just going to put these on the webpage, why would you even need > > the .changes file? (And the .dsc is only for the source package, so you > > don't need that for the potato build either) > > > > I'd put the potato and woody build in different directories, then I > > wouldn't need to rename, but if you don't want to, I don't see why you > > can't rename the potato build and drop the .changes file. > > That's certainly a valid question. In fact, I lied :-) I don't want > to put them just on the web page, I also want to keep them (both) in > my local tree of packages and be able to install and de-install them at > will with dpkg or apt. That's the real reason I want to have different names.
dpkg-scanpackages don't need the .changes file either. I have an apt-able http repository for my potato packages and I didn't need to put any .changes in there.
