Guillem Jover writes: > On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 08:15:07 +0200, Ansgar wrote: >> With the first binNMU the changelog used 5.2.17+1+b1 as the version >> and this caused disagreement between different parts of dpkg. >> dpkg-source generates linux-signed-amd64_5.2.17+1+b1.dsc, but >> dpkg-genchanges strips the trailing +b1 from the version: [...] >> I'll suggest to work around this by mangling the version a bit more >> and use .b1 instead of +b1, but the disagreement seems to be a bug in >> dpkg. > > It looks to me that the problem might actually be the missing > binary-only=yes key/value in the changelog header though, which the > original should have? Could you check whether that would completely > fix this?
It should generate a new *source* package, it is not binary-only. dpkg-source does do so. But dpkg-genchanges seems to (still) use the heuristic stripping the +bX from versions instead of using the binary-only key (which is not present here). I think either: - dpkg-source should refuse to generate source packages using binNMU version numbers (that trigger the heuristic that other parts of dpkg use), or - dpkg-genchanges should be able to generate changes files for source packages that use versions ending in +bX (provided no binary-only is set); i.e. stop using heuristics and instead rely on the binary-only key. Ansgar
