On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:13PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > Hi, > > how do you invoke dpkg-buildpackage for a binary-only NMU? In section > 8.2 "Guidelines for Porter Uploads", the Developer's Reference says: > > In a binary NMU, no real changes are being made to the source. You > do not need to touch any of the files in the source package. This > includes debian/changelog. debian/changelog is not in source of the package. Is that really written in the developers reference (too lazy to check that now)?
Of course you have to update debian/changelog (IMHO), but this change usually will not be included in the new MU version. Have a look at sbuild how the buildds do this (--make-binNMU=<entry> adds <entry> to the changelog). http://m68k.debian.org/buildd/index.html Christian -- http://people.debian.org/~cts/sbuild/