| Reinhard Tartler 2006-01-18, 5:56 pm |
| On 1/18/06, Mike Bird <mgb-debian@yosemite.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 05:29, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
> Ubuntu does NOT set the origin in its packages:
>
> # dpkg -s dpkg | egrep -i '(origin|version):'
> Origin: debian
> Version: 1.13.10ubuntu4
> #
>
> apt can be a useful tool but it tells you where it knows a package
> can be found, not the actual origin of an installed package:
>
> # dpkg -i --force-all xli_1.17.0-18sarge1_i386.deb
> (snip)
> # apt-cache show xli | grep -i origin:
> Origin: Ubuntu
> #
I think this is something we can work on or have changed. I only
checked the output of apt-cache. I think apt-cache however, is the
most common case for user who want to know about a package, but
anyhow..
>
> What practical problems? DDs can increment the two-dot version
> on a binary NMU. Why can't Ubuntu's copy-sources-from-debian
> script do the same?
requesting binNMUs requires access to wanna-build, AFAIK. Humble
ubuntu developers do not have access to that, just uploads. We can
talk about uploading policy. I ask to be corrected if I'm wrong on
this point.
>
> What please is the difference between a buildX package and all the
> other packages that were rebuilt without the buildX annotation?
It is quite similar to what debian calls a binary NMU, but developers
do not need wanna-build access to that. Instead, they upload a new
..dsc and .diff.gz, which gets accepted by katie as new package upload.
These kind of uploads are necessary during transitions, e.g. when a
package has been built against an older library but needs to be
rebuilt with an newer one.
--
regards,
Reinhard
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