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

[Raphaël Hertzog]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.72.0-2
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if sbuild could let me set an arbitrary suffix
when I request a binNMU. While binNMU was once defined by the "+bX"
suffix, nowadays it's defined by the "binary-only=yes" changelog
attribute.

This means that we can use any version suffix for the binNMU (except "one
starting with "~") and I expect that we will want to be able to use this
possibility in the context of PPA (or bikesheds) where we will have
bin-nmu versions like <version>+ppafoo1 in one repo and <version>+ppabar1
in another repository.

dpkg already does the right thing by setting the source version from the
former changelog entry so it would be nice if sbuild could support that
feature.

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.

Cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser         3.115
ii  apt-utils       1.3.1
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.72.0-2
pn  perl:any        <none>

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.86

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
ii  autopkgtest  4.2
pn  deborphan    <none>
ii  wget         1.18-4

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