Un-ACK!: LP#1571156: vbox: resync with 5.0.18-dfsg-2build1 V2

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Sun Apr 24 11:59:26 UTC 2016


On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 12:35:05PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 03:22:45PM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > This patch set breaks (already applied to xenial/master-next) breaks the
> > xenial packaging.  debuild -S -I -i   fails with:
> > 
> > dpkg-source: info: building linux using existing linux_4.4.0.orig.tar.gz
> > dpkg-source: info: building linux in linux_4.4.0-22.38.diff.gz
> > dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to ubuntu/vbox/vboxvideo/r0drv:
> > dpkg-source: error:   new version is symlink to ../r0drv
> > dpkg-source: error:   old version is nonexistent
> > 
> > What say you, Andy?
> 
> This is a simple change in link content in the tree.  When that happens
> we have to rebuild the reconstruct file.  That is normally done as part
> of "fdr insertchanges", but testing before then can trip these.  I
> suspect it makes sense to include an "fdr autoreconstruct" in the update
> proceedure, which I will do next time.
> 
> Separatly I have rebuilt the reconstruct and pushed it to the tip of
> master-next.  It test built for me.  I would recommend we fold it into
> the update commit and push it.

Ok I have also added this step to the update script.

-apw




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