* Peter Samuelson:
> [Hilko Bengen]
>> I am preparing an NMU to DELAYED/7 right now. You can find the changelog
>> entry below. A binNMU would not work because it would break
>> co-installability with a new changelog entry.
>
> In other words, any 'M-A: same' package that is _ever_ binNMU'd is
> broken. Argh.
At the moment: yes. I heard about a proposal to put the "rebuild"
changelog entry into a different changelog file. This would solve the
problem, but it has not been implemented yet.
> I just checked the build logs. Every buildd, plus my local amd64
> build, used gzip 1.4-5.
Strange. Does a rebuild produce different results?
> So why do you think a rebuild would fix this problem? What file caused
> the conflict, anyway?
Only changelog.Debian.gz was affected in my case, see below.
Cheers,
-Hilko
$ dpkg -l libgpm2
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii libgpm2:amd64 1.20.4-5 General Purpose Mouse - shared library
ii libgpm2:i386 1.20.4-5 General Purpose Mouse - shared library
(I had used dpkg --force-overwrite as suggested by Sven Joachim.)
$ diff -ui /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgpm2\:{i386,amd64}.md5sums---
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgpm2:i386.md5sums 2012-06-08 19:14:29.000000000 +0200
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgpm2:amd64.md5sums 2012-06-08 18:48:11.000000000
+0200
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-f0004dd159cce37fb7d872009092343d usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgpm.so.2
-484fa4688fc2865a15c80540f04a7b3f usr/share/doc/libgpm2/changelog.Debian.gz
+c654ebdb8588765675a9bb7fbd6a1bc4 usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpm.so.2
+09b8c644e1de1f7b561b6509eef9b64c usr/share/doc/libgpm2/changelog.Debian.gz
3648d1c6e269701f857ec219086b0298 usr/share/doc/libgpm2/changelog.gz
4573cc1b44eba29db576098aa6bdb96b usr/share/doc/libgpm2/copyright
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