Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.2 Severity: normal Hi,
nmudiff includes the full debdiff when preparing a new upstream release: bee% lsdiff orbit2-2.14.5-0.1-nmu.diff /tmp/k7tXieDrqT/orbit2-2.14.4/acinclude.m4 /tmp/k7tXieDrqT/orbit2-2.14.4/ChangeLog /tmp/k7tXieDrqT/orbit2-2.14.4/configure [...] /tmp/k7tXieDrqT/orbit2-2.14.4/debian/changelog [...] /tmp/k7tXieDrqT/orbit2-2.14.4/test/inhibit/Makefile.in /tmp/k7tXieDrqT/orbit2-2.14.4/test/Makefile.in /tmp/k7tXieDrqT/orbit2-2.14.4/test/poa/Makefile.in This is not very useful, the maintainer usually only cares about the delta between the two diff.gz. Interdiff gives usually good results when the change are truly a diff: bee% interdiff -z -p1 orbit2_2.14.4-1.1.diff.gz orbit2_2.14.5-0.1.diff.gz --- orbit2-2.14.4/debian/changelog +++ orbit2-2.14.5/debian/changelog @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -orbit2 (1:2.14.4-1.1) unstable; urgency=low +orbit2 (1:2.14.5-0.1) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. * New upstream stable release; no ABI change, one small backward-compatible Bye, -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.20 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.18 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25 package building tools for Debian ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.5-1 The GNU sed stream editor Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii fakeroot 1.6.5 Gives a fake root environment -- no debconf information -- Loïc Minier