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Re: Pushing a bunch of packages to jessie-backports



[Vincent Cheng, 2015-11-26]
> >> solution: pass -sa to dpkg-source ("--force-orig-source" in sbuild or "--debbuildopts -sa" in pbuilder)
> 
> No, that's not necessary as long as the orig tarball is already
> present in the archive in another suite (which would be true for
> backports, since the package is supposed to be derived from the
> current version in testing).

any pointers to docs/announcements? That's news to me...
Does that mean backports are just another suite now and I actually can
tell zigo to not hijack my packages?

> > the second one is missing changelog items and your packages have this one too.
> >
> > solution: pass -vFOO to dpkg-source (where FOO is version in stable)
> > ("--force-orig-source --debbuildopt -vFOO" in sbuild and
> > "--debbuildopts '-sa -vFOO'" in pbuilder)
> 
> No, the -v flag is no longer required as of April of this year [1]. It
> is merely "recommended" now [2].

ACK
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