Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

[Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>]

* Guillem Jover (guillem@debian.org) [120610 10:08]:
> As I mentioned in the long ref-counting thread, I strongly disagree this
> is a correct solution, it just seems like a hack to me. Instead I
> think we should consider changelog (and copyright as long as it's in
> machine parseable format) as dpkg metadata (something dpkg misses
> compared to rpm or other package managers for example) and as such they
> should go into the .deb control member, which would end up in the dpkg
> database w/o any kind of file conflict, and very minor packaging effort
> as for most that would be handled by helpers.

I'm fully happy to see that solved in whatever way. However, getting
it sorted out for binNMUs seems like some kind of priority to me.

Perhaps we could add the binNMU entry for the moment and fix the rest
later? Or whatever would make you more happy. Just I'd like to be able
to schedule binNMUs again on ma-packages.


Andi