Blank line bug (aka #684503) and its consequences

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi,

Le dimanche 25 novembre 2012 à 23:37 +0100, Michael Tautschnig a
écrit : 
> Dear GNOME package maintainers,
> 
> In #684503 [1] I had reported the spurious blank line in gnome-pkg-tools'
> control.header file. As there might have been some concern as to whether this
> indeed is a policy violation, I initiated some further discussion on d-devel
> [2].

I don’t think there is a consensus that this is a policy violation.
Without a clarification of the policy we have to presume that it is not.

> As I had promised in that thread, I would eventually ask for further feedback
> from the GNOME team: to fully solve this problem, a rebuild of 213
> packages will be required. My main question is: is there any infrastructure used
> by your team that could be used to automate such a process? The steps required
> to fix the problem are:
> 
> 1. Fix #684503 in gnome-pkg-tools and upload gnome-pkg-tools to unstable.
> 2. Rebuild all packages build-depending on gnome-pkg-tools and upload them.
> 
> If no such infrastructure exists, I'd simply ask for #684503 to be fixed (Ubuntu
> has done so several weeks ago already) in gnome-pkg-tools. Then at least any
> future uploads of build-depending packages will come with the bugfix.

You could also fix pbuilder. This should be just as easy as step#1 and
does not require step#2.

Cheers,
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