Re: arch-specific binary-only rebuild

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Mark Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:56:09AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > The only way that I know is editing the debian/changelog such
> > that dpkg-buildpakage makes the proper version number package and
> > generates a proper changes file.
> 
> That's about it.  Such rebuilds are quite common.

Thanks.
 
> > If not, I presume that I remove the changelog entry after the new
> > deb is build (so that it doesn't appear in subsequent uploads as
> > part of the history).  Right?
> 
> Why would you want to do that?  It's a new version of the package isn't
> it?

Yes and no.  The i386 binary-only rebuilds will be the only ones
documented in such a way, since others arches haven't uploaded
source.

I suppose the entries don't hurt.

Peter