Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-15 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Christian Perrier dijo [Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:13:21PM +0200]: > > Nowadays, the recommended way to update config.sub/guess is transparent, > > Debian-specific (but friendly to any sort of upstream config.sub/guess > > usage pattern), version-control friendly, and also non-.diff-bloating. > > Cou

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:04:45PM +0200, Christian Aichinger wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:09:35PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > 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 e

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:09:35PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:01:52AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > 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 includ

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Christian Aichinger
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:09:35PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > 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

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
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

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Christian Perrier
> Nowadays, the recommended way to update config.sub/guess is transparent, > Debian-specific (but friendly to any sort of upstream config.sub/guess > usage pattern), version-control friendly, and also non-.diff-bloating. Could you develop on that topic (or point me to some good reference, of cou

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread hmh
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:11:37AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > [ If you do not believe this, visit buildd.debian.org and see the > > build logs for the lifelines package, for example ]. > > I am in the process of fixing this, thanks for reporting. > > However, I am completely sure that

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Christian Perrier
> [ If you do not believe this, visit buildd.debian.org and see the > build logs for the lifelines package, for example ]. I am in the process of fixing this, thanks for reporting. However, I am completely sure that this did not went into the package by accident and I was certainly misguided by

automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-07 Thread Santiago Vila
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 t