Dima Kogan: > Hi. I just hit this with the geda-gaf source package, and it would be > great if this was fixed, rather than remaining the hidden pitfall that > it is now. > > The debian binNMU wiki page (https://wiki.debian.org/binNMU) suggests > using ${source:Version} instead of ${binary:Version} to avoid this > issue, so how do we feel about the attached patch to debhelper? > > > > _______________________________________________ > debhelper-devel mailing list > debhelper-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debhelper-devel >
Hi Dima, The issue in geda-gaf cannot be solved in debhelper correctly. Please have a look at #766711 to understand the reasoning. Basically: * We can only support two style of binNMUs: arch:all -> arch:all OR arch:any -> arch: any. Anything else will break. * Compat 10 and later will forbid possibly broken setups. We tried to retro fit it into compat 9 and earlier, but it broke in unintended ways (we could not reliably detect the issues). Thanks, ~Niels
