Bug#939387: Please provide a way to rebuild the package with debian/changelog-only changes

[Stéphane Glondu]

Package: src:diffoscope
Version: 122
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

When recompiling all packages that use OCaml with OCaml 4.08.0,
diffoscope failed with:

> debian/rules:16: *** Version in debian/changelog does not match diffoscope version.  Stop.

This is because my scripts generate a new changelog entry documenting
the recompilation, with a suffixed version, but otherwise does not
change the source package.

I believe this kind of changes-only-in-debian/changelog should be
supported by all Debian packages. Maybe you could relax the version
check so that the version in diffoscope/__init__.py is only a prefix
of the version in debian/changelog?


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane


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