On 2016-07-18 08:12:13, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> On 18 July 2016 at 06:21, James Cowgill <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, 2016-07-17 at 22:16 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> >> The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
> >> commit d3dc4b14057eab6f3bfa09c8388a7c20351ccf95
> >> Author:
> >> Date:   Sun Jul 17 17:40:59 2016 -0400
> >>
> >>     Rebuild against ffmpeg-3.1.1 (Closes: #831537)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
> >> index 0e3ff7b..1123209 100644
> >> --- a/debian/changelog
> >> +++ b/debian/changelog
> >> @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
> >> +mpv (0.18.0-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
> >> +
> >> +  * Rebuild against ffmpeg-3.1.1 (Closes: #831537)
> >> +
> >> + -- Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]>  Sun, 17 Jul 2016 17:38:39 
> >> -0400
> >
> > This is the wrong way to go about doing this. If you just want to
> > rebuild a package, then you should ask the release team to binNMU it.
> >
> > IMO this warning should be patched out of mpv (and any ABI issues
> > sorted out). Upstream also seems to have made this warning into a fatal
> > error in 0.18.1 which is obviously unacceptable for Debian.
> >
> > https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/d057e7a142a327c653f3f0379014567028448b5d
> 
> My mistake, I've reverted it.  When is "dch -R" appropriate?  When I
> saw the bug report I thought "aha! I know how to fix this, this is
> what dch -R is for!" because it is a "no-change rebuild" (dch
> manpage).  Also, I thought that even no change rebuilds were supposed
> to be represented in git...

No, there is no need for it. Unless you're doing no change rebuilds for arch:all
binaries which cannot be binNMUed yet.

> Has someone else already emailed debian-release@lists?

I don't think a binNMU is appropriate here - at least at this stage. mpv needs a
sourceful upload removing that warning for good.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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