[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#844583: sbuild: allow arbitrary version suffix for binary rebuild (binNMU)

Johannes Schauer josch at debian.org
Thu Dec 22 09:03:07 UTC 2016


Hi,

Quoting Raphael Hertzog (2016-12-22 10:00:58)
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2016, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> > > Maybe it can be smart and if the parameter to --binNMU-version contains
> > > (or starts with?) non-digits, then it should assume that it's the full
> > > bin-NMU suffix that is passed.
> > 
> > what do you want to do that the --append-to-version option cannot yet do?
> 
> Nothing. I was just not aware that it was working like binNMU and was also
> setting the binary-only=yes changelog attribute.
> 
> Maybe you can enhance the description of --make-binNMU to say that when
> you need full control on the generated version number, you should use
> --append-to-version without --make-binNMU and that in that case the text of
> the changelog entry is not user controllable.

you can also use --append-to-version together with --make-binNMU to set the
text but set --binNMU="" to not get the +bX appended.

Thanks!

cheers, josch
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