[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#681292: sbuild: Please add "binary-only=yes" keyword in the changelog for binNMUs

[Raphaël Hertzog]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.63.1-1
Severity: wishlist

dpkg-dev introduced a generic solution for binNMUs that doesn't hardcode
the requirement to use a "+bX" suffix. All you have to do is to add
a "binary-only=yes" keyword in the changelog header line like this:

ftplib (3.1-1-9+b1) unstable; urgency=low, binary-only=yes

When this keyword is present, dpkg-gencontrol will assume that the source
version is the one listed in the changelog entry below the one tagged
binary-only.

This gives us the freedom to do binary-only uploads with different
suffixes, for instance we could use "~bpo6.0+1" to build squeeze backports
while reusing the same source package that is in testing.

Please update sbuild to add this keyword. It should not break anything
for older versions of dpkg as long as you stick to the usual suffix.

Cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.4-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  apt-utils       0.9.7.1
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.63.1-1
ii  perl            5.14.2-12
ii  perl-modules    5.14.2-12

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.42
ii  fakeroot     1.18.4-2

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
ii  deborphan  1.7.28.8
ii  wget       1.13.4-3

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