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Re: jabberd2 in jessie-backports



On Tue, 05 May 2015, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> writes:
> 
> >> > As you can see from mentors, there is a lintian
> >> > backports-changes-missing warning related to -v and I'm not sure how to
> >> > deal with this.  Reading http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ says:
> >> >
> >> >    Include all changelog entries since the last version on
> >> >    debian-backports or since stable if it's the first version. You
> >> >    should do this by passing "-v" to dpkg-buildpackage. Eg: "debuild
> >> >    -v0.7.5-2", where "0.7.5-2" is the version in stable. If the package
> >> >    wasn't in stable or backports before you don't have include the
> >> >    changelog entrys (but you are free to do so).
> >> >
> >> > However, jabberd2 is not in stable nor debian-backports.  What should be
> >> > done in that case?  It doesn't say, so I didn't do anything.
> >
> > "If the package wasn't in stable or backports before you don't have include the
> > changelog entrys (but you are free to do so)."
> >
> > What are you missing?
> 
> Thanks for response!  A way to silence this lintian warning.  I'm not
> sure what the best way is.  Should I have used the -v flag?
Just ignore it.

Alex


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