Control: severity -1 minor Hi!
On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 12:03:34 +0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.19.6 > Severity: normal > dpkg-buildpackage -F is supposed to be equivalent to > dpkg-buildpackage --build=source,binary > > The dpkg-buildpackage manpage tells us that if --build=source is used, > then a source.changes file will be generated. > > But dpkg-buildpackage -F does not generate source.changes, it only > generates the binary changes file. It also says that: Specifies the build type from a comma-separated list of components > The expected behaviour is that it will generate both, just as pdebuild > does. > > The same applies to dpkg-buildpackage -g and -G (--build=source,all > and --build=source,any) I have to confess I find this notion to be a bit strange. :) More so given alias mappings given. I guess I should emphasize that the arguments to --build (or their equivalent aliases) get combined to form a single build type? Or what do you think would have made this more clear? Thanks, Guillem
