[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#450638: Bug#450638: Rebuild fails even if only debian/changelog updated

Ian Jackson Ian.Jackson at eu.citrix.com
Fri Nov 9 09:50:46 UTC 2007


Bastian Blank writes ("Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#450638: Rebuild fails even if only debian/changelog updated"):
> Build-dependencies are for building the package, not changing it. It is
> not really documented what is needed to change it.

I have to say that I find this quite a surprising response.  The
purpose of being able to build the package is so that one can make
and use changes.  That's the whole point of Free Software, surely ?

In any case, the package will not work if it needs to be bin-NMUd (ie,
rebuilt), because adding a changelog entry without making any changes
is exactly what the buildds do in that case.

I think the package should be buildable even after changes, and that
the Build-Depends should specify all of the necessary parts for that.

>  debian/changelog is
> critical here as the version is used for the abiname.

I see.  I don't have any objection to parsing the changelog and
generating control files or the like.  I just think this
autogeneration ought to work and it seems to me that it doesn't,
currently.

> Anyway, if you want to do snapshots from unstable use
> svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-xen/trunk/xen-unstable, it is configured
> differently.

I'll take a look at that, thanks.

Ian.





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