Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-30 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 30/01/2010 13:13, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:11:25AM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: My reason for this behavior was that I want 1) doc installed by mercurial-common in its name-space (ie in /usr/share/doc/mercurial-common) 2) doc easy to find by mercurial users in /us

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-30 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:41:46AM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > On Saturday 30 January 2010, Ben Finney wrote: > > So, the version was upgraded to ‘1.2.1-1+b1’, but there latest > > entry in the changelog is still only ‘1.4.1-1’. There is no entry > > describing the changes in the latest releas

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Vincent Danjean writes: > Hi, > > On 30/01/2010 01:19, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Goswin von Brederlow writes: >> >>> The +b suffix on the version is indeed a binNMU. That means that the >>> source was recompiled without any changes to the source. The changelog >>> is the one from the source so i

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-30 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:11:25AM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > My reason for this behavior was that I want > 1) doc installed by mercurial-common in its name-space (ie in >/usr/share/doc/mercurial-common) > 2) doc easy to find by mercurial users in /usr/share/doc/mercurial > > The symlink

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-30 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, On 30/01/2010 01:19, Russ Allbery wrote: Goswin von Brederlow writes: The +b suffix on the version is indeed a binNMU. That means that the source was recompiled without any changes to the source. The changelog is the one from the source so it only has the source version as top entry.

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Ben Finney
"Adam D. Barratt" writes: > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > = > > $ PACKAGE=mercurial > > > > $ dpkg-query -W -f 'Version: ${Version}\n' $PACKAGE > > Version: 1.4.1-1+b1 > > > > $ zcat /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/changelog.Debian.gz | dpkg-parsechangelog > > -l- | grep

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Ben Finney wrote: > So, the version was upgraded to ‘1.2.1-1+b1’, but there latest > entry in the changelog is still only ‘1.4.1-1’. There is no entry > describing the changes in the latest release of the package, as > specified in policy §4.4. > > How does this occ

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow writes: > The +b suffix on the version is indeed a binNMU. That means that the > source was recompiled without any changes to the source. The changelog > is the one from the source so it only has the source version as top > entry. binNMUs also modify the changelog in the pac

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ben Finney writes: > Howdy all, > > Occasionally I notice a package upgrade on a host, but the Debian > changelog for the package has no corresponding changelog entry for the > new release. > > The most recent example is ‘mercurial’: > > = > $ PACKAGE=mercurial > > $ dpkg-query -W -f 'Ver

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Occasionally I notice a package upgrade on a host, but the Debian > changelog for the package has no corresponding changelog entry for the > new release. > > The most recent example is ‘mercurial’: > > = > $ PACKAGE=mercurial > > $ dpkg-

Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, Occasionally I notice a package upgrade on a host, but the Debian changelog for the package has no corresponding changelog entry for the new release. The most recent example is ‘mercurial’: = $ PACKAGE=mercurial $ dpkg-query -W -f 'Version: ${Version}\n' $PACKAGE Version: 1.4.1-1