Re: Correct way to do binary-only NMU?
* "Christian T. Steigies"
| On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:13PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote:
| > Hi,
| >
| > how do you invoke dpkg-buildpackage for a binary-only NMU? In section
| > 8.2 "Guidelines for Porter Uploads", the Developer's Reference says:
| >
| > In a binary NMU, no real changes are being made to the source. You
| > do not need to touch any of the files in the source package. This
| > includes debian/changelog.
|
| debian/changelog is not in source of the package. Is that really written in
| the developers reference (too lazy to check that now)?
Of course. If you change the source, you need to bump the version
number. That is a _source_ NMU, since we need to able to build the
packages from the source we have around.
A binary NMU should not touch the source. Remember - a buildd
building and uploading is, technically, doing an NMU.
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