On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:01:52AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Ok, this is already the second time I have to report a bug like this, > so I will warn everybody before I find more of them. > > There seems to be a bunch of packages who try to update the changelog > in this way: > > dch -a -p "GNU config automated update: config.sub\ > ($$OLDDATESUB to $$NEWDATESUB), config.guess\ > ($$OLDDATEGUESS to $$NEWDATEGUESS)" ;\ > > whenever they use new config.guess and config.sub files from the > autotools-dev package. > > PLEASE DON'T DO THAT. Don't change the changelog in debian/rules. > > Adding changes would be ok for an upload which includes source > (i.e., .dsc and .diff), but it's simply the *wrong* thing to do when > an upload does not include a new source (for example, the changelog > update will also happen on builds made by an autobuilder).
Woah, it's not okay for sourceful uploads either. You *cannot* change anything that goes into the source package at build time. This includes the top entry in changelog and the source section of the control file. Trying to do this *will not work*. At the point when the changes are made, the source package HAS ALREADY BEEN BUILT. What happens is that the changes made in the currentx build get included in the *next* source package you build from the same tree, so the source and binary are perpetually out of sync. This is BAD. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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