[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] generated ChangeLog files make packages not multi-arch co-installible (and also not reproducible)

[Santiago Vila]

forcemerge 804134 804141
severity 804141 important
thanks

On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Roderich Schupp wrote:

> Source: avahi
> Version: 0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> I tried to install some self-built amd64 packages from avahi 0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1
> along the corresponding i386 patches from the archives. This failed because
> some changelog.gz files were different in the amd64 and i386 packages, e.g.
> /usr/share/doc/libavahi-client3/changelog.gz:
> 
> 2015-11-04  gettextize  <bug-gnu-gettext at gnu.org>
> 
>         * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add config.rpath.
>         * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Add po/Makefile.in.

Hello. This is essentially the same bug as #804141, so I think it's
appropriate to merge them. Because this issue breaks multiarch
co-installability, I'm raising both bugs to important.

Now the maintainers have two different ways to fix this. I think using
NEWS as the upstream changelog (see #804141) is a little bit better, but
any of the fixes for the multiarch issue will probably make the package
to be reproducible as well.

Thanks.