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Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?



On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 19:51:17 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Binary-only NMUs are a necessary evil.  The implementation kind of
> sucks, but I'm not sure how a better approach would look like.  It's
> not just the dependencies problem, it's also quite confusing that
> you've got a source package which builds different binary package
> versions on different architectures (but their are other ways to
> achieve that).  For instance, this pretty much rules out precise
> tracking based on binary packages.

The resulting .changes will get a field like this:

  Source: bacula (1.38.11-7)

which can be used to track back from which source this binary
originated. Or are you referring to something different?

regards,
guillem



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