Hi, On 30/01/2010 01:19, Russ Allbery wrote:
Goswin von Brederlow<goswin-v-b@web.de> writes:The +b<N> suffix on the version is indeed a binNMU. That means that the source was recompiled without any changes to the source. The changelog is the one from the source so it only has the source version as top entry.binNMUs also modify the changelog in the package under normal circumstances. The only reason why it didn't in this case is because this package symlinks the doc directory to another package, as previously pointed out. (Another reason to question the usefulness of symlinking doc directories.)
[taking my hat of mercurial maintainer]
My reason for this behavior was that I want
1) doc installed by mercurial-common in its name-space (ie in
/usr/share/doc/mercurial-common)
2) doc easy to find by mercurial users in /usr/share/doc/mercurial
The symlink of /usr/share/mercurial (with a strict dependency) was the
easiest way for me to do the work. If there is a consensus it is not a
good idea, I can try to change and symlink the content of
/usr/share/doc/mercurial-common into /usr/share/doc/mercurial (but
changelog.Debian.gz, copyright, ... of course) instead.
Regards,
Vincent
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