Re: cowbuilder and Distribution field in .changes file
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- Subject: Re: cowbuilder and Distribution field in .changes file
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:10:59 -0700
- Message-id: <87tziiw0vw.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
- In-reply-to: <B7E781C0038448EB98DD5E6808162933@gokuraku> (Salvatore Ansani's message of "Fri\, 4 Apr 2008 08\:49\:38 +0200")
- References: <B7E781C0038448EB98DD5E6808162933@gokuraku>
"Salvatore Ansani" <ml@ansani.it> writes:
> Whatever distro I select (stable / testing / unstable), .changes file
> always contains this field "Distribution: unstable".
The target distribution in the *.changes file is taken from the
debian/changelog file, not from the environment in which the package was
built. You have to edit the *.changes file after the build if you want to
target a different distribution than the debian/changelog entry indicates.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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