Re: getting rid of the .changes requirements

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

* Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> [2013-07-04 20:19:26 CEST]:
> Better support in the building front-end tools could help.  At least in
> theory, debian/changelog says what distribution you're targetting when you
> build.  Given that information, one could make an rmadison call to find
> the current version of the package in that distribution (or, for
> *-backports, when the package isn't found, the associated base
> distribution) and then add the appropriate -v flag automatically.
> 
> It would require a dependency on rmadison, so it's probably not something
> for dpkg-buildpackage, but debuild, pdebuild, git-buildpackage, or
> anything else that's higher in the dependency stack should be fair game.

 Interesting idea, it though would also require network in the build
environment, which isn't always available. :)

 Enjoy,
Rhonda
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