Bug#431814: Source field of .changes files may contain a version number
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.2
Severity: wishlist
Per recent mail from Guillem Jover, the version number is also added
to the Source field of .changes files for binNMUs. This change was
made in dpkg 1.13.22 and is therefore currently in stable. dak also
now supports it.
This diff attempts to bring Policy back in line with current practice.
Comments?
--- orig/policy.sgml
+++ mod/policy.sgml
@@ -2336,14 +2336,14 @@
</p>
<p>
- In a main source control information, a <file>.changes</file>
- or a <file>.dsc</file> file this may contain only the name
- of the source package.
+ In <file>debian/control</file> or a <file>.dsc</file> file,
+ this field must contain only the name of the source package.
</p>
<p>
- In the control file of a binary package it may be followed
- by a version number in parentheses<footnote>
+ In a binary package control file or a <file>.changes</file>
+ file, the source package name may be followed by a version
+ number in parentheses<footnote>
It is customary to leave a space after the package name
if a version number is specified.
</footnote>.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
-- no debconf information
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