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

[James McCoy]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 08:32:21PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 at 15:05:10 -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> > Shouldn't it always be kept in the resulting changes file?  It's just
> > build metadata like the changes/dsc files.
> 
> Hmm. I think it would be unexpected to include the buildinfo in a
> source-only changes file (mergechanges --source), since (per
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763822>)
> it is metadata about a binary build.

Yet “dpkg-buildpackage -S” does produce a *_source.buildinfo.  That's
actually the first time I've seen anything other than
*$datestamp_$hash.buildinfo... oh, dpkg 1.8.15 seems to have changed the
naming of the files.

Ok, feel free to commit your proposed patch if it includes handling for
_source (or let me know if you'd prefer me to do so).

Cheers,
-- 
James
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