Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes: You call it superfluous. It's particularly helpful for source-only uploads. Well, yes, it's superfluous for Debian, which doesn't

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: So, y'all realize that pdebuild --buildresult .. by default breaks the *_source.changes file that it generates because it regenerates a source package as part of the regular build, right? How are you

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:26:28AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: pdebuild uses dpkg-buildpackage -S to generate a source package which it then copies into the chroot to do the full build. FWIW, via cowbuilder you get _source.changes by default. So, for instance, I started seeing those files when I

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-15 Thread Malte Forkel
Russ Allbery schrieb: Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de writes: After some more checking and thinking, I guess I know what's causing my problems: Its me, probably! I assume the source.changes files are created while I setup everything for building a package, e.g. by dh_make calling

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de writes: Russ Allbery schrieb: Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de writes: After some more checking and thinking, I guess I know what's causing my problems: Its me, probably! I assume the source.changes files are created while I setup everything for

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org (15/05/2009): Calling dpkg-buildpackage -S produces a superfluous _sources.changes file, so anything that uses that method to produce a source package for build would either need to remove it or would leave it lying around. pdebuild uses dpkg-buildpackage -S to

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org (15/05/2009): Calling dpkg-buildpackage -S produces a superfluous _sources.changes file, so anything that uses that method to produce a source package for build would either need to remove it or would leave it lying around.

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-15 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-05-15, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org (15/05/2009): Calling dpkg-buildpackage -S produces a superfluous _sources.changes file, so anything that uses that method to produce a source package for build would either

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes: You call it superfluous. It's particularly helpful for source-only uploads. Well, yes, it's superfluous for Debian, which doesn't support source-only uploads. But not for hackers preparing packages for Debian,

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes: You call it superfluous. It's particularly helpful for source-only uploads. Well, yes, it's superfluous for Debian, which doesn't support source-only uploads. But

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org (15/05/2009): So, y'all realize that pdebuild --buildresult .. by default breaks the *_source.changes file that it generates because it regenerates a source package as part of the regular build, right? How are you actually using that *_source.changes file? Always

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: So, y'all realize that pdebuild --buildresult .. by default breaks the *_source.changes file that it generates because it regenerates a source package as part of the regular build, right? I've no idea about what pdebuild does, I don't use it. I was

i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-14 Thread Malte Forkel
Hi, I recently noticed that when I'm packaging software sometimes a i386.changes file gets created, and sometimes a source.changes file gets created. I couldn't find an explanation in the New Maintainer's Guide or in the Policy Manual. I guess its something to do with the setup or type of the

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-14 Thread Luk Claes
Malte Forkel wrote: Hi, I recently noticed that when I'm packaging software sometimes a i386.changes file gets created, and sometimes a source.changes file gets created. I couldn't find an explanation in the New Maintainer's Guide or in the Policy Manual. I guess its something to do with

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-14 Thread Malte Forkel
Luk Claes schrieb: Malte Forkel wrote: Hi, I recently noticed that when I'm packaging software sometimes a i386.changes file gets created, and sometimes a source.changes file gets created. I couldn't find an explanation in the New Maintainer's Guide or in the Policy Manual. I guess its

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-14 Thread Philipp Kern
[Sorry about the terse reply.] On 2009-05-14, Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de wrote: Well, just judging from a limited sample, all source.changes and i386.changes files I checked contain both Source and Binary fields. He spoke about the Files part. There is some correlation to the

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-14 Thread Malte Forkel
Philipp Kern schrieb: [Sorry about the terse reply.] Not at all. Thanks for responding! On 2009-05-14, Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de wrote: Well, just judging from a limited sample, all source.changes and i386.changes files I checked contain both Source and Binary fields. He spoke

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de writes: After some more checking and thinking, I guess I know what's causing my problems: Its me, probably! I assume the source.changes files are created while I setup everything for building a package, e.g. by dh_make calling dpkg-buildpackage -S or

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-05-14, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de writes: After some more checking and thinking, I guess I know what's causing my problems: Its me, probably! I assume the source.changes files are created while I setup everything for building a package, e.g.