2017-11-17 02:13 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
I uploaded a NMU with this change to delayed/10, the patch looks simple enough and this package is important in (re)bootstrapping situations and cross-building, due to the multiple and important packages that build-depend on it.
Even if the change seems safe, since this package is quite important, I tested to build the rev-deps in pbuilder/cowbuilder with the new version installed. These packages could not be built: $ grep -L dpkg-genchanges *.build-log collectd.build-log hhvm.build-log qemu.build-log trafficserver.build-log Analysing them: - collectd and trafficserver are failing to build from source for other reasons, with several RC bugs reported. - hhvm and qemu failed to build due to lack of space in the disk (they're quite big). All the others built fine: $ grep 'dpkg-genchanges .*_amd64\.changes' *.build-log alfred.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../alfred_2016.1-1_amd64.changes asterisk.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../asterisk_13.18.1~dfsg-1_amd64.changes autodir.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../autodir_0.99.9-10_amd64.changes bareos.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../bareos_16.2.6-3_amd64.changes bind9.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../bind9_9.10.6+dfsg-5_amd64.changes bubblewrap.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../bubblewrap_0.2.0-2_amd64.changes chrony.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../chrony_3.2-1_amd64.changes clsync.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../clsync_0.4.2-1_amd64.changes criu.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../criu_3.6-2_amd64.changes diod.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../diod_1.0.24-3_amd64.changes dpdk.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../dpdk_16.11.2-4_amd64.changes fakeroot.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../fakeroot_1.22-2_amd64.changes fastd.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../fastd_18-2_amd64.changes flatpak-builder.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../flatpak-builder_0.10.4-1_amd64.changes flatpak.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../flatpak_0.10.0-2_amd64.changes freeradius.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../freeradius_3.0.15+dfsg-2_amd64.changes gvfs.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../gvfs_1.34.1-1_amd64.changes hercules.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../hercules_3.12-3_amd64.changes kinit.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../kinit_5.37.0-2_amd64.changes kismet.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../kismet_2016.07.R1-1_amd64.changes libapache2-mod-ruid2.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../libapache2-mod-ruid2_0.9.8-3_amd64.changes liblinux-prctl-perl.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../liblinux-prctl-perl_1.6.0-3_amd64.changes limba.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../limba_0.5.6-2_amd64.changes lxc.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../lxc_2.0.9-4_amd64.changes mcstrans.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../mcstrans_2.7-1_amd64.changes miredo.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../miredo_1.2.6-4_amd64.changes mumble.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../mumble_1.2.18-1_amd64.changes nfs-ganesha.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../nfs-ganesha_2.5.2-1_amd64.changes ntp.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../ntp_4.2.8p10+dfsg-5_amd64.changes ostree.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../ostree_2017.13-1_amd64.changes pax-utils.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../pax-utils_1.2.2-1_amd64.changes procenv.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../procenv_0.43-2_amd64.changes proxsmtp.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../proxsmtp_1.10-2.1_amd64.changes pulseaudio.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../pulseaudio_11.1-1_amd64.changes pure-ftpd.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../pure-ftpd_1.0.46-1_amd64.changes python-prctl.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../python-prctl_1.6.1-2_amd64.changes quagga.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../quagga_1.2.2-1_amd64.changes rlinetd.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../rlinetd_0.9.1-1_amd64.changes rpm.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../rpm_4.14.0+dfsg1-2_amd64.changes rtkit.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../rtkit_0.11-5_amd64.changes samba.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../samba_4.7.1+dfsg-1_amd64.changes snapd.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../snapd_2.27.6-2_amd64.changes sslh.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../sslh_1.18-1_amd64.changes stress-ng.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../stress-ng_0.09.02-1_amd64.changes systemd.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../systemd_235-3_amd64.changes terminatorx.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../terminatorx_4.0.1-1_amd64.changes umview.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../umview_0.8.2-1.1_amd64.changes uwsgi.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../uwsgi_2.0.15-10_amd64.changes uwsgi-plugin-luajit.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../uwsgi-plugin-luajit_0.0.3_amd64.changes uwsgi-plugin-mongo.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../uwsgi-plugin-mongo_0.0.3_amd64.changes uwsgi-plugin-php.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../uwsgi-plugin-php_0.0.2_amd64.changes uwsgi-plugin-v8.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../uwsgi-plugin-v8_0.0.3_amd64.changes vdr.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../vdr_2.3.8-1_amd64.changes vsftpd.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../vsftpd_3.0.3-9_amd64.changes wireshark.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../wireshark_2.4.2-1_amd64.changes zorp.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../zorp_6.0.10-4_amd64.changes zsh.build-log: dpkg-genchanges >../zsh_5.4.2-2_amd64.changes Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>