On Tuesday, November 18, 2025 11:27:56 PM Mountain Standard Time Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > okay, so you want the .changes file. The --source argument gives you that but > it does more and it does undesirable things which are explained in the text > that you removed.
I have been using this option for years and have not noticed any undesirable effects. I have read over the text you refer to, and it does not make plain to me what problems including this option causes. Could you please be more explicit about how this is problematic? > The problem is not generating the .changes files. That's also why the > convenience option --source-only-changes exists. As noted below, this option by itself does not generate a correct amd64.changes file. > I think I understand your problem now. Your problem is, that you do not get a > *_$arch.changes file which includes references to the source package and > adding the --source option or $build_source=1 does this and that's why you > recommend adding it. Is that correct? That is correct. Properly generating complete source.changes and $arch.changes files is an important aspect of the example .sbuildrc on the wiki. -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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