Bug#382826: Patch to use source version for binary-only NMU'd packages

[Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 02:00:31PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> Matt Kraai wrote:
>
>> The attached patch makes apt-get strip the binary-only NMU suffix from
>> the binary package version to construct the source package version.
>
>> I've tested that it allows me to use "apt-get source" on packages that
>> have had binary-only NMUs.
>
> I think we should rather fix the binNMU process. The "+b[0-9]*" thing is 
> only a convention, after all, and there are others in use (e.g. when 
> backporting).

I don't have a problem with changing the binNMU process, but I'm
afraid that doing so may take some time and I don't see how to go
about it.  If changing the process will take some time, would it be
possible to apply this patch until it is?  How could the process be
changed?

I don't see the parallel to backporting, since isn't a new,
corresponding source package generated when a package is backported?

-- 
Matt