Re: Question regarding -v version in uploads

[Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de>]

Christian Hammers schrieb am Sunday, den 14. February 2010:

> Hello
> 
> My last upload of "quagga" to lenny-backports got rejected with
> "Changelog from stable missing in changes file.". I presume that this
> relates to the following rule from:
> http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=contribute
> 
> > Include all changelog entries since the last version on backports.org
> > or since stable if it’s the first version. You should to this by
> > passing “-v<version>” to dpkg-buildpackage. Eg: ‘debuild -sa
> > -v0.7.5-2’, where ‘0.7.5-2’ is the version in stable.
> 
> In stable there is 0.99.10-1lenny2 but the lenny1 and lenny2 changelog
> entries do not appear in the unstable changelog because those bugs were
> fixed in the upstream releases 0.99.11 and 0.99.12.
> 
> So where should the excerpt of the unstable's changelog for the bpo
> upload start? With the latest common version (0.99.10-1)?
Yes, exactly.

Alex

P.S: I'm currently thinking of dropping the requirement for
squeeze-backports, any oppinions?