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From: Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Pushing a bunch of packages to jessie-backports
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 20:20:01 +0100
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Hi Piotr,

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Piotr O=C5=BCarowski <piotr@debian.org> wr=
ote:
> [Piotr O=C5=BCarowski, 2015-11-26]
>> that's the first mistake most backporters do, they forgot to include ori=
g tarball
>> (ftp masters would detect that and reject your package, additional work =
for them)
>>
>> solution: pass -sa to dpkg-source ("--force-orig-source" in sbuild or "-=
-debbuildopts -sa" in pbuilder)

No, that's not necessary as long as the orig tarball is already
present in the archive in another suite (which would be true for
backports, since the package is supposed to be derived from the
current version in testing).

> the second one is missing changelog items and your packages have this one=
 too.
>
> solution: pass -vFOO to dpkg-source (where FOO is version in stable)
> ("--force-orig-source --debbuildopt -vFOO" in sbuild and
> "--debbuildopts '-sa -vFOO'" in pbuilder)

No, the -v flag is no longer required as of April of this year [1]. It
is merely "recommended" now [2].

Regards,
Vincent

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2015/04/msg00000.htm=
l
[2] http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index7h3