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

[Chris Lamb]

Stéphane Glondu wrote

> I would suggest to compare only the first part (upstream
> version/major version/whatever).

FYI I had to do something similar recently in src:xtrlock:

  https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xtrlock/commit/eb0b4174c81fdb1b81926203af3bb8c7c34fdac9

Mattia, fancy implementing this? I believe you wrote the current
version check code.


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

Heh, although ironically strip-nondeterminism (a non-native
package...) has been causing more problems than diffoscope. :)


Regards,

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