[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

[Michael Gilbert]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:25:42 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't the ideal solution be non-architecture-specific changelogs?
>
> No, that would be very much non-ideal.  One should be able to schedule
> binNMUs for a subset of archs,

I did not suggest that.  Anyway, maybe this will be a bit clearer.
Let's say an existing package is at version +b1 on amd64, and it needs
to get a binnmu, then a +b2 package is built on amd64, its changelog
is taken and stuffed it into all of the other 'Multi-Arch: same' +b1
packages, which are now called +b2, and all of them uploaded.  Those
other architectures didn't undergo a rebuild, but nevertheless, they
got new packages.

Then lets say a +b3 is needed on i386, then the same is done, and the
'Multi-arch: same' amd64 package (and others) get stuffed with the
i386 +b3 changes (which includes the prior amd64 +b2 changelog).

> and one shouldn't have to look up whether
> a package builds m-a:same binaries.

This is a new special case that will need to be handled somehow,
right?  Look-ups are not that expensive; although admittedly the time
spent writing the infrastructure supporting may not be.

Best wishes,
Mike