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

Mattia Rizzolo mattia at debian.org
Sat Sep 7 15:26:46 BST 2019


On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 10:56:23AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> 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.

strip-nd is non-native, and in my experience is so much of a pain to do
a new upstream release that I really don't want to do them anymore...
Compared to that, this one issue with diffoscope is such a triviality
that I can't even start compare them.

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