Bug#756975: dpkg-genchanges option to only include arch:all debs

2014-08-09 Thread Joey Hess
Guillem Jover wrote: Hmm, I had already pondered about this when I saw the announcement. So, while I agree such option would make life easier for people that want to do “almost-source-only uploads” right now (because TBH the other alternatives are very annoying), on first thought this seemed

Bug#756975: dpkg-genchanges option to only include arch:all debs

2014-08-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 09 Aug 2014, Joey Hess wrote: An added wrinkle is that -S doesn't build arch specific debs at all, of course, but a responsible user of this new DAK feature will want to build debs, lintian and test the locally, but not upload them. I think this calls for more than a generic

Bug#756975: dpkg-genchanges option to only include arch:all debs

2014-08-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 12:00:41 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Guillem Jover wrote: Hmm, I had already pondered about this when I saw the announcement. So, while I agree such option would make life easier for people that want to do “almost-source-only uploads” right now (because TBH the other

Bug#756975: dpkg-genchanges option to only include arch:all debs

2014-08-09 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Funnily this can already be done with “dpkg-buildpackage --changes-option=-S” but it will generate a _arch.changes file that list only the source package (that's because the filename is decided by dpkg-buildpackage while the content comes from dpkg-genchanges). Hmm, so

Bug#756975: dpkg-genchanges option to only include arch:all debs

2014-08-09 Thread Joey Hess
Guillem Jover wrote: But, this has a nice side-effect, you can also do something like: $ dpkg-buildpackage --changes-option=-g which will perform a normal full build, but filter the generated .changes file to only include source+arch-indep packages. Which I think is what you'd be

Bug#756975: dpkg-genchanges option to only include arch:all debs

2014-08-04 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 01:41:22 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.10 Severity: wishlist Now that the archive supports source-only uploads, with the exception that arch:all debs have to still be uploaded (as no autobuilder is responsible for them), dpkg-genchanges

Bug#756975: dpkg-genchanges option to only include arch:all debs

2014-08-03 Thread Joey Hess
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.10 Severity: wishlist Now that the archive supports source-only uploads, with the exception that arch:all debs have to still be uploaded (as no autobuilder is responsible for them), dpkg-genchanges -S is useful, but not quite right. It would be good to have an