Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

[Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>]

* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (hmh@debian.org) [120609 02:31]:
> We'd just have to teach the tool to binNMU all arches when the target
> package would need it due to multiarch.  Release team requests a binNMU of a
> package for some arch, the tool notices it has to do them all because of
> multi-arch constraints, and replicates the request for all other arches.

Just that this won't do it, because the changelogs for the different
arches will be binary different, so no win.

However, we discussed that during the multi-arch bof last Debconf, and
came to the conclusion that it would be better to not modify the
changelog as we do now, but instead create a new file
changelog.$arch.$version with the binNMU. This is a bit more
complicated because it can't be done as of now just within the source
package.

Anyone implementing this is warmly welcome.



Andi