Bug#939387: Please provide a way to rebuild the package with debian/changelog-only changes

[Holger Levsen]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 10:07:26AM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> I see this is a native package. Why don't you use the version in
> debian/changelog to generate diffoscope/__init__.py? If this was not a
> native package, or if the version number would otherwise naturally split
> in two parts, I would suggest to compare only the first part (upstream
> version/major version/whatever).

this matches my notion that native packages cause more harm than good.
IMHO we should make diffoscope non-native.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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