Bug#767839: Bug#766711 closed by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> (Re: debhelper: Dependency added by dh_installdocs --link-doc breaks binary-only NMUs)

[Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>]

reopen 766711
block 766711 by 767839
thanks

> 
> I have taken the liberty of marking the bug as wontfix (read: "cantfix")
> and closing it.

I'm re-opening it, as neither the bug has not been fixed, nor the Policy
has been changed to explicitly disallow linking arch:any to arch:all
(see #767839).

> 
> ~Niels
> 
> [1] This is not limited to debhelper.  The reading of the policy
> actually (implicitly) forbids link-doc between arch:all and arch:any
> packages as the binNMU version is not the same as the source version.

The version of source package is actually the same for both binNMU-ed
arch:any and originally built arch:all. I think this fulfils the `(same
source package and version)' given in footnote 116 in the policy.

Additionally in my opinion those dummy `rebuild with ....' changelog
entries are added only to bump the version of binary package in order to
upload into archive, otherwise they are probably of little interest to
users, especially that they are being later overridden by maintainers'
uploads.

Regards,
robert