Bug#859629: dh-buildinfo: Please clarify that this is unrelated to .buildinfo handling

[Chris Lamb]

Source: dh-buildinfo
Version: 0.11+nmu1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-CC: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

A patch is attached to clarify that dh-buildinfo is unrelated to
the handling of Reproducible Builds .buildinfo files.

Hopefully this will pre-emptively prevent some confusion.


Regards,

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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 04f8c05..0c7405d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -20,3 +20,5 @@ Description: Debhelper addon to track package versions used to build a package
  versions which are known to be buggy, and, more generally, to find
  out whether a package needs to be rebuilt because of a significant
  change in a package it has a build-time dependency on.
+ .
+ Note that this package is unrelated to handling of .buildinfo files.
diff --git a/dh_buildinfo b/dh_buildinfo
index 9fdf9db..e23a0e2 100755
--- a/dh_buildinfo
+++ b/dh_buildinfo
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ You will usually just run this in your package's binary rule. If you
 need extra control over the operation, you can specify the actions to
 be taken. The default actions are I<generate> I<install>.
 
+Note that this utility is unrelated to the handling of I<.buildinfo> files.
+
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