Re: Entries in Packages files that lack a Source field
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 07:34:46PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:18:55PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > The detection of binary NMUs is currently, among others, using the
> > debian version of a package and guessing from its form. What is a
> > binary NMU and what not is not aparent from the Packages file. It has
> > been suggested to insert Source: entries pointing to the original
> > source of an binary NMU instead.
>
> That should probably happen regardless, and is because dpkg doesn't have
> the proper support for it. It's independent of whether to add Source:
> lines when unneeded in any other case. If you bin-NMU, you *are*
> building from a source called -N.0.1, because you changed the changelog.
> dpkg-dev could have some means to build with different version number
> from the same source package, or any other (probably a bit hacky) way to
> achieve this.
I am not sure it is relevant, but dpkg-dev already support binary
packages having a different version than the source packages, by
adding a Version field to debian/control.
There is at least one package that use this facility: olvwm:
Package: olvwm
Architecture: i386
Source: xview (3.2p1.4-19)
Version: 4.4.3.2p1.4-19
So we could have for binNMU:
Source: foo (1-1)
Version: 1-1.0.1
It is possible to do that with current dpkg-dev by
1) not adding a new version field to the changelog, add any comment to
the last one (the maintainer one).
2) add a Version field to debian/control with the .0.1 version.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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