Package: developers-reference Version: 3.3.6 Tags: patch Hi folks, Please consider the attached patch to update the developer's reference description of recompile-only binNMU versioning so that it matches the current behavior of dak and sbuild. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
diff -Nru /tmp/BG1jKelzmI/developers-reference-3.3.6/debian/changelog /tmp/SsOVUHjyJs/developers-reference-3.3.6/debian/changelog --- /tmp/BG1jKelzmI/developers-reference-3.3.6/debian/changelog 2005-02-05 02:10:02.000000000 -0800 +++ /tmp/SsOVUHjyJs/developers-reference-3.3.6/debian/changelog 2006-01-23 03:52:33.000000000 -0800 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +developers-reference (3.3.6-0.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Update documentation for binNMUs to use the versioning scheme currently + supported by dak. + + -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:53:56 -0800 + developers-reference (3.3.6) unstable; urgency=low * Andreas Barth diff -Nru /tmp/BG1jKelzmI/developers-reference-3.3.6/developers-reference.sgml /tmp/SsOVUHjyJs/developers-reference-3.3.6/developers-reference.sgml --- /tmp/BG1jKelzmI/developers-reference-3.3.6/developers-reference.sgml 2005-03-25 07:22:35.000000000 -0800 +++ /tmp/SsOVUHjyJs/developers-reference-3.3.6/developers-reference.sgml 2006-01-23 03:57:49.000000000 -0800 @@ -2761,12 +2761,21 @@ get this wrong, the archive maintainers will reject your upload (due to lack of corresponding source code). <p> -The ``magic'' for a recompilation-only NMU is triggered by using the -third-level number on the Debian part of the version. For instance, -if the latest version you are recompiling against was version -``2.9-3'', your NMU should carry a version of ``2.9-3.0.1''. If the -latest version was ``3.4-2.1'', your NMU should have a version number -of ``3.4-2.1.1''. +The ``magic'' for a recompilation-only NMU is triggered by using a +suffix appended to the package version number, following the form ++b<number>. For instance, if the latest version you are +recompiling against was version ``2.9-3'', your NMU should carry a +version of ``2.9-3+b1''. If the latest version was ``3.4+b1'' (i.e, a +native package with a previous recompilation NMU), your NMU should have +a version number of ``3.4+b2''. + +<footnote> +In the past, such NMUs used the third-level number on the Debian part of +the revision to denote their recompilation-only status; however, this +syntax was ambiguous with native packages and did not allow proper +ordering of recompile-only NMUs, source NMUs, and security NMUs on the +same package, and has therefore been abandoned in favor of this new +syntax.</footnote> <p> Similar to initial porter uploads, the correct way of invoking <prgn>dpkg-buildpackage</prgn> is <tt>dpkg-buildpackage -B</tt> to only
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