source-only builds and .buildinfo

Guillem Jover guillem at debian.org
Thu May 25 01:03:51 UTC 2017


Hi!

[ Just a very quick reply, will go over the other mails during the week. ]

On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 13:58:00 +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Also the man page for dpkg-buildpackage is out-of-date:
> 
>        6. Unless a source-only build has been requested, it runs the
> buildinfo hook and calls dpkg-genbuildinfo to generate a .buildinfo
> file.  Several dpkg-buildpackage options are forwarded to dpkg-genbuildinfo.
> 
> and also later:
> 
>               The current hook-name supported are:
>               init preclean source build binary changes postclean check
>               sign done
> 
> missing out "buildinfo", and indeed if I run "dpkg-buildpackage
> --hook-buildinfo=true" the buildinfo file still gets generated.

Yes, as I mentioned on
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2017/05/msg00024.html> this is
something I've noticed now several times, but forgot to fix. I did so
the other day and have queued it for a future 1.18.25 release.

Thanks,
Guillem



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