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Re: discrepancies between uploaded and source-built .deb



On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:26:43PM -0800, Karl Chen wrote:
> >>>>> On 2005-03-23 11:44 PST, Jeroen van Wolffelaar writes:
> 
>     Jeroen> I assume you use 'debdiff' that actually does those
>     Jeroen> list you the differences in file lists? And also
>     Jeroen> differences in dependencies, if a recompile introduces
>     Jeroen> another dependency, it is worth fixing this now,
>     Jeroen> because after sarge is released, this might cause
>     Jeroen> problems in the future with security updates.
> 
> I didn't know about debdiff - that would have saved me from
> basically re-implementing it.

Common problem unfortunately in the open source/Debian world... not that
$what_you_want doesn't exist, but that you just don't know it exists nor
where to find it :(.

--Jeroen

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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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