Re: i386.changes vs source.changes
Russ Allbery schrieb:
> Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de> writes:
>
>> After some more checking and thinking, I guess I know what's causing
>> my problems: Its me, probably! I assume the source.changes files are
>> created while I setup everything for building a package, e.g. by
>> dh_make calling dpkg-buildpackage -S or whatever. I then use either
>> debuild and pdebuild to build the binary packages. But while debuild
>> replaces the source.changes file by an i386.changes file, pdebuild
>> places the i386.changes file in /var/cache/pbuilder/result and does
>> not replace the source.changes file.
>
> The _source.changes file created by pdebuild is useless. I always
> delete it in my shell alias that runs pdebuild. I suppose I should have
> gotten around to filing a wishlist bug to have pdebuild delete it.
>
Oh, so its only pdebuild that creates a superfluous _source.changes file
while all the other little helpers don't and consequently don't have to
replace later on?
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