Re: Don't use dpkg-buildpackage -m, especially not with NMUs
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:58:40AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> I see it happen occasionally that NMU's and sometimes also group-uploads
> are happening while using '-m' to dpkg-buildpackage. This has the effect
> that the 'Maintainer:' field in the .changes file gets overridden to
> yourself, and that is not the intention. Your upload will therefore not
> be marked as 'NMU' for example, and bugs are really closed, rather than
> marked fixed.
Sorry, but you're wrong here. See the log of #271673, which I believe
you're referring to here, and which was correctly marked as fixed. I
didn't use -m for this upload, either, by the way.
Regards,
Daniel.
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