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

[Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net>]

John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:13:07AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> > binNMUs though.  Aren't buildds simply there to build the existing
>> > sources on other platforms?  Surely some human was involved here?
>> 
>> wanna-build and buildd have been modified a while back to be able to do
>> binNMU's. The only human involvement is when a given package is marked
>> in the database as 'requires a binNMU', and when the buildd admin later
>> signs the package, as usual.
>
> Would it be possible to record the name of the human that marked the
> package in debian/changelog?  That would be a big help, I think (and
> hopefully avoid a discussion on debian-devel next time it happens)

Since this is about a binNMU where the source package is not touched
and the changelog lives inside the source package how is that supposed
to be possible?

Adding to the changelog requires a new upload.

Matthias