Bug#671074: dpkg-buildpackage: option for building multiple times in a row

2012-07-02 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com, 2012-05-01, 13:22: The attached patch adds option to build package multiple times in a row. This is useful for testing correctness of the clean target. The patch looks noisy, because I had to indent a few dozen of lines; but other than that, it adds just

Bug#671074: dpkg-buildpackage: option for building multiple times in a row

2012-07-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi again, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com, 2012-05-01, 13:22: I'm not convinced this is worth a dpkg-buildpackage option on its own. Well, I am. Good, now our positions are staked out. Hopefully it is possible to take care of all our needs without interfering with the

Bug#679959: dpkg: 1.16.5 breaks binNMUs

2012-07-02 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.5 Severity: grave When binNMUing a package with dpkg 1.16.5, the debs end up with a missing version in the Source field of their control file. See e.g. https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libgdal-grassarch=kfreebsd-i386ver=1.9.0-1%2Bb2stamp=1341244875

Bug#679959: dpkg: 1.16.5 breaks binNMUs

2012-07-02 Thread Julien Cristau
tag 679959 patch kthxbye On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 19:14:58 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.5 Severity: grave When binNMUing a package with dpkg 1.16.5, the debs end up with a missing version in the Source field of their control file. This seems to work: ---

Bug#671074: dpkg-buildpackage: option for building multiple times in a row

2012-07-02 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com, 2012-07-02, 09:24: Possible alternative methods: a) teaching sbuild and $VCS-buildpackage an option to use another command instead of dpkg-buildpackage, or b) (as a hack, if (a) is too fussy) overriding dpkg-buildpackage with a wrapper that appears

Bug#671074: dpkg-buildpackage: option for building multiple times in a row

2012-07-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jakub Wilk wrote: * Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com, 2012-07-02, 09:24: In case (a), wouldn't you only need to patch one builder (namely the one you use), Is this a polite way of saying nobody else but you would use this feature anyway? No. I said before that the proposed feature would