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Re: i386.changes vs source.changes



On 2009-05-15, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> writes:
>> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (15/05/2009):
>>> Calling dpkg-buildpackage -S produces a superfluous _sources.changes
>>> file, so anything that uses that method to produce a source package
>>> for build would either need to remove it or would leave it lying
>>> around.  pdebuild uses dpkg-buildpackage -S to generate a source
>>> package which it then copies into the chroot to do the full build.
>> You call it superfluous. It's particularly helpful for source-only
>> uploads.
> Well, yes, it's superfluous for Debian, which doesn't support
> source-only uploads.

Superfluous for Debian's main archive.

Mraw,
Philipp Kern


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