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

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2016, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> > 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.

That was not clear from the manual page either. I would have expected
to get "<version><append>+b" in that case.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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