hi, (leaving full context for debian-policy@l.d.o) On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 06:56:24AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.20.9 > > Dear dpkg-dev developers, > > One feature that is deeply missed, and which disappered when we moved to > source only uploads, is the listing of binary package descriptions in > the email to debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org. > > The emails used to have a section like this, listing the short > description of each binary package: > > Description: > gdm - GNOME Display Manager > > I used this to see if a package I never heard about could be interesting > to check out or not. After we moved to source only uploads to unstable, > there is no Description section any more in the emails, and it is a lot > harder to guess what the odd packages are useful for. > > The email content is simply the uploaded .changes file. > > Would it be possible to adjust the .changes generator to include the > description of all binary packages listed in d/control, even if none of > them are included in the upload? IMO this would only be a clumsy workaround (esp for packages with many binary package) and we should rather fix the cause: #963524 debian-policy: Binary and Description fields not mandatory in .changes on source-only uploads #998165 debian-policy: document and allow Description in the source paragraph #998282 Please make Section a required field for the source paragraph in d/control https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=998165#19 is a nice example how this would work in practice. -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C ⠈⠳⣄ If you own several guns but no guitars, you are doing life all wrong.
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