[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#844583: sbuild: allow arbitrary version suffix for binary rebuild (binNMU)

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi Johannes,

On Thu, 22 Dec 2016, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> > Maybe it can be smart and if the parameter to --binNMU-version contains
> > (or starts with?) non-digits, then it should assume that it's the full
> > bin-NMU suffix that is passed.
> 
> what do you want to do that the --append-to-version option cannot yet do?

Nothing. I was just not aware that it was working like binNMU and was also
setting the binary-only=yes changelog attribute.

Maybe you can enhance the description of --make-binNMU to say that when
you need full control on the generated version number, you should use
--append-to-version without --make-binNMU and that in that case the text
of the changelog entry is not user controllable.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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