Re: Architecture: all binNMUs (was: deduplicating jquery/)

[Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 12:28:38PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 10:56:28AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > Possible solutions:
> > 
> > - Change at least 622 packages so they have something more like
> >   Depends: foo-data (>= ${source:Version}), foo-data (<< ${source:Version}+c)
> > - Change at least 622 packages so that when foo-data is binNMU'd, it
> >   automatically gets Provides: foo-data (= 1.2-3)
> > - Change some more central component so that the dependencies are edited
> >   or the Provides is added globally

> Make no-change-other-than-version-bump source uploads easier?

+1000.

For anyone who uses rebuilt packages outside of official Tier-1
infrastructure, binNMUs are nasty.


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