Re: getting rid of the .changes requirements
On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 09:23 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2013, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
>
> > You'll have to build the package in a stable+backports build environment
> > anyway, so the problem can be solved with the data of "apt-cache policy"
> > or similar. If there's a backported package: You have the
> > last version number. It there's no backported package: Take the version from
> > stable.
>
> That won’t work at all: the previous backported package may
> not yet have arrived in the archive or not be built for that
> platform.
>
> I think to everyone who spends 5 minutes to read the docs,
> adding --debbuildopts '-sa -v0.1-2' is easy enough, and
> this requirement is reasonable. I know I read d-d-changes
> to find out what’s going on often enough myself.
...although -sa is now unneeded.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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