Re: update excuses.. how to read them
Daniel Kobras wrote:
> It's not as easy as that. Consider the upstream and the Debian maintainer
> being the same person. But still they want to keep separate upstream and
> Debian changelogs. Now, debhelpers will scream if you build a native
> package with separate changelogs, but you can't build a full non-native
> package either because there is no diff to the upstream sources. The
> outcome if this usually is one of these strange native packages with
> Debian revision number. (The revision number not making much sense as
> you'll have to do a full upload for every minor change anyway because
> there's no .orig.tar.gz.) I for one have this very problem with noflushd
> and haven't found a good solution yet.
Well I could always change debhelper. That check is in there as a sanity
check, I have seen it help developers many times when they were making a
mistake, but if it is a problem I can take it out.
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see shy jo
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