On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:45:06 +0100, Matthias Klose<doko@debian.org> wrote:
On 11.12.2010 17:40, Stephen Kitt wrote:
I imagine this could mean that the gcj and gnats builds don't use the
patches in the gcc-4.x-source package, and only use the tarball which
won't change from one Debian version to another (e.g. 4.5.1-1 to 4.5.1-2
etc.)...
yes.
That
seems a shame to me since the patches are useful, and it still leaves the
problem of having a package build using gcc-4.5-source 4.5-1 for example,
and then gcc-4.5-source being replaced with version 4.5.1-1 with a new
tarball.
no, the tarball doesn't change. it's in the .orig.tar.gz. all other
patches/packging are synced with the gcc-4.5 package. Nothing is lost, all
patches are applied.
I must be misunderstanding something here then:
% dpkg-deb -c gcc-4.5-source_4.5.0-10_all.deb|grep tar
-rw-r--r-- root/root 52023076 2010-04-14 13:56 ./usr/src/gcc-4.5/gcc-4.5.0-dfsg.tar.xz
% dpkg-deb -c gcc-4.5-source_4.5.1-1_all.deb|grep tar
-rw-r--r-- root/root 52073572 2010-07-31 16:20 ./usr/src/gcc-4.5/gcc-4.5.1-dfsg.tar.xz
% dpkg-deb -c gcc-4.5-source_4.5.1-12_all.deb|grep tar
-rw-r--r-- root/root 52073572 2010-07-31 16:20 ./usr/src/gcc-4.5/gcc-4.5.1-dfsg.tar.xz
% dpkg-deb -c gcc-4.5-source_4.5.2-1_all.deb|grep tar
-rw-r--r-- root/root 52182428 2010-12-18 13:38 ./usr/src/gcc-4.5/gcc-4.5.2-dfsg.tar.xz
Surely depending on when something build-depending on gcc-4.5-source is
built, it might be built using gcc-4.5.0-dfsg.tar.xz, but not necessarily
rebuilt with one of the later tarballs? Once gcc-4.5-source_4.5.1-1_all.deb
is uploaded and gcc-4.5-source_4.5.0-10_all.deb disappears from the archive,
it would require a binNMU at least to make sure the depending packages use
the source available in Debian, wouldn't it?