Re: Making dpkg-gencontrol behave....
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
[Snippage of previous threadage....]
> I see that dpkg-gencontrol is looking at the debian/control file, reading the
> Source: line and bombing when it doesn't match the changelog. This is actually
> a very important check to have in general, and I don't think we can change it.
> I think you're best off just using ther source package name in all changelogs.
OK.... I've no problem with that. :^)
But will the changelogs not matching their host pacakges cause any
trouble for the infrastructure? (ie, bugs files against 'notebook'
going against _all_ of the packages carrying the same changelog, etc)
If there's no problem with the infrastructure, then I am up to
cleaning/testing/porting/uploading/etc it....
Thanx to all who responded. I really appreciate it. :^)
[ ... and more Kudos to Joey! ... ]
Cheers!
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