Bug#1064950: AW: AW: Bug#1064950: apache2: (Legacy?) "Depends: apache2-data (= ${source:Version})," in debian/control breaks binNMU builds.

["Warlich, Christof" <christof.warlich@siemens.com>]

Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> Christof Warlich wrote:
> > If this assumption is true, then why is the Debian build system (i.e. dpkg-buildpackage) not smart enough to simply ignore an existing +bX extension for Architecture: all binary packages? IMHO, this would simplify matters, as it would have avoided the pitfall that I stumbled into altogether.
> 
> binNMUs are handled a layer above. sbuild will pass the correct options to dpkg-buildpackage to build binNMUs. If you are interested in having binNMU builds for your own infrastructure, you'll probably need to take a look at the sbuild source to see how it is implemented.

Ok, so I'd better start using sbuild instead. Again, thanks for the valuable info and your time.