Proper generation of .changes files

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Mon Jul 16 17:01:06 UTC 2012


While it is always important to have a proper .changes file, it is even more so 
for SRUs.  The Launchpad-Bugs-Fixed field is used by 
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/pending-sru.html to determine what 
bugs are associated with the SRU.  If the bugs aren't there, then SRU team 
members need to go hunt down the bugs via the changelog and check them by 
hand.  I'm writing this because today I discovered an SRU that sat in proposed 
for an extended period because of this.

If you generate your .changes on an Ubuntu system, you shouldn't have a 
problem.  If you do it on a Debian (or some non-Ubuntu derivative) then you 
need to remember to set DEB_VENDOR.

Scott K




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