Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

[Brian Sammon <debian-users-list@brisammon.fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:55:22 +0100
Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:

> Packages in the archive with a "+bN" version suffix, such as "+b1", have be
> 'binNMUd': essentially rebuilt without any source changes because the
> environment has changed (such as a version bump of a library dependency).

Ah!  Thank you!  "binNMU" is the magic word.

Found the following in google:
https://wiki.debian.org/binNMU
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/sbuild.1.html

So I would have to install/learn "sbuild".

> In your case it would be worthwhile documenting the fact your package diffe
> from the archive anyway; so I'd recommend just adding a new changelog stanz

I was wrong, it turns out that binNMUs _do_ (usually) add a changelog entry, but it's a sort of ephemeral entry (e.g. the changelog entry for 2.12-1+b2 won't show in the changelog for 2.12-2 because it doesn't go into the source package)