Forwarded on behalf of Goswin von Brederlow. Hi, recently some changes have been made to the DAK, wanna-build and buildds for binNMUs that probably went unnoticed to most developers. And since binNMUs are rather uncommon you might not notice for the longest time and then despair. So heres a summary: - buildds can recompile a source with a binNMU version This uses the original Debian source and adds a changelog entry stating that it is an automatic recompile before recompiling. - wanna-build can be asked to schedule a binNMU for an arch This means that you don't have to manualy compile binNMUs anymore, which should probably be discouraged from now on. If you think a binNMU is needed for ome reason a request should be send to debian-release and they will deal with it. - binNMU version scheme changed The developer reference _still_ states binNMU should be versioned as 1.2-3.0.1. The DAK will no longer accept this. Instead binNMU versions are now made by adding +b1 (+b2, +b3) to the version and containing a "Source: foo (non-NMU version)" line. The later makes it possible to reliable associate binNMUs with their source. If you NEED to do a manual binNMU it is probably best to use sbuild (the cvs, not deb) or at lest look at what sbuild does for a binNMU before attempting your own. Normaly just ask debian-release do schedule one on the buildds for you. I hope that helps you. MfG Goswin
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