[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#672711: Bug#672711: Bug#672711: sbuild: --append-to-version should set source:Version substvar

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Sun, 13 May 2012, Roger Leigh wrote:
> The current situation, as I see it, is that the versions in
> debian/changelog specify the source version.  The binary
> version is always equal to the source version.  However, when
> the version is +bn we treat this specially and have different
> source and binary versions.

As you probably saw with my last bug report, there's now a way
for you to deal with this wishlist but it still involves messing
with the changelog.

If you tag the changelog entry with "binary-only=yes" then
dpkg-gencontrol will use the former changelog entry to find
out the version to put in ${source:Version}.

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

You should update --append-to-version to use this mechanism too.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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