Bug#843470: mergechanges: doesn't know about new .buildinfo files

[Ben Hutchings]

Control: severity -1 serious

On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:30:43 +0100 gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.16.8
> Severity: normal
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> Since version 1.18.11, dpkg adds .buildinfo files to .changes files.
> mergechanges complains about them:
> 
> Unrecognised file, is it architecture-dependent?
>  1c74ecba3989d7aac825ffd15fe7c300 5241 perl optional libcrypt-openssl-pkcs12-perl_0.7-2_20161106T212511z-1c74ecba.buildinfo
> Unrecognised file, is it architecture-dependent?
>  bff7e28ed83b302269de99174bae74ea74f124b7 5241 libcrypt-openssl-pkcs12-perl_0.7-2_20161106T212511z-1c74ecba.buildinfo
> Unrecognised file, is it architecture-dependent?
>  a6706797b7888e23dc23e15eb484d686df2cb81116d79f6abd565bb36f7d8ae2 5241 libcrypt-openssl-pkcs12-perl_0.7-2_20161106T212511z-1c74ecba.buildinfo
> 
> Apart from that, it seems to do its job fine. Still, teaching it
> about the new files would be good, I guess.

Unfortunately, it *doesn't* do the job fine.  It also excludes all
files listed after the .buildinfo.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because
they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett

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