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

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