Re: changes file issue when packaging for backports
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, quidame wrote: Oops, not Priority: but Urgency: quidame quid...@safe-mail.net wrote: Hi, I try to backport bilibop_0.4.22 source package (native). If only changes from 0.4.22 to 0.4.22~bpo70+1 are copied in to the changes file, lintian complains with the 'backports-changes-missing' error tag [1]. If I add -v0.4.21 dpkg-genchanges, the resulting changes file says: Priority: medium [...] Closes: 750507 756086 This overrides the priority of thr bpo package (low, in wheezy-backports); medium is the priority of 0.4.22 in unstable. It claims to close two bugs that are already closed in 0.4.22; more, one of these bugs id specific to jessie/sid, and the bugfix is reverted in the bpo. should I edit the changes file to modify Priority: field and modify or remove Closes: field ? Or replave -v0.4.21 option by something more relevant (shortened changelog entry for 0.4.22) ? Or can I let it go 'as is' ? Priority and closed bugs are not relevant for backports. So just ignore them and the right version for -v. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141113084223.ga20...@lisa.snow-crash.org
Re: changes file issue when packaging for backports
Oops, not Priority: but Urgency: quidame quid...@safe-mail.net wrote: Hi, I try to backport bilibop_0.4.22 source package (native). If only changes from 0.4.22 to 0.4.22~bpo70+1 are copied in to the changes file, lintian complains with the 'backports-changes-missing' error tag [1]. If I add -v0.4.21 dpkg-genchanges, the resulting changes file says: Priority: medium [...] Closes: 750507 756086 This overrides the priority of thr bpo package (low, in wheezy-backports); medium is the priority of 0.4.22 in unstable. It claims to close two bugs that are already closed in 0.4.22; more, one of these bugs id specific to jessie/sid, and the bugfix is reverted in the bpo. should I edit the changes file to modify Priority: field and modify or remove Closes: field ? Or replave -v0.4.21 option by something more relevant (shortened changelog entry for 0.4.22) ? Or can I let it go 'as is' ? Cheers, quidame [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/backports-changes-missing.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/n1r-8jve8c2...@safe-mail.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/n1r-nlwieok...@safe-mail.net
