On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 18:38 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Hmm, I appreciate that you ask me for confirmation, but really, I
> don't have so much time. Bear in mind that I submitted over 200 bugs
> like this.
> 
> However, I'll give you a way to check that it's ok:
> 
> Run "dpkg-buildpackage" with the old package.
> 
> Then run "dpkg-buildpackage -B" and "dpkg-buildpackage -A" with the
> fixed
> package.
> 
> Then run diffoscope to compare old and new .debs.
> 
> diffoscope is the tool that we use in reproducible builds to check
> that a source package always generates the same .deb, but it's also
> the ideal tool to veriy that a change in debian/rules still generates
> the "same" .deb.
> 
> Hope this helps.


I'll see what I can do. But in case you need to upload sooner, let me
know.


-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

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