[Pkg-clamav-devel] LTS update of clamav and call for advice

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 20:00 +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Hi Scott
> 
> I have now walked through the difference in the debian directories between
> the version in jessie and stretch updates.
> I think there is more work than just a simple changelog update.
> 
> 1) The changelog file contain a lot of changes. I wonder how we generally
> should it. If I backport a package from current stable should I keep that
> changelog and just add one entry or should I pretent that the jessie
> version still apply and add one entry from that one... Not sure myself.
[...]

Assuming that you are going to take almost all the changes from
stretch:

1. Add all the newer changelog entries from stretch to jessie's
   debian/changelog.
2. Add an entry for the backport version.
3. Use the -v option with the previous jessie version when building the
   source package.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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