[Bug 1594558] Re: Please merge debian-multimedia 0.5 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

[Ross Gammon]

Thanks Michael,

Sorry about the maintainer bit, that was a mistake, and your debdiff
would be better.

I built my package on the blends-dev recently synced to yakkety, so it
seems we used the same. This version of blends-dev included a
significant change that added an *-all package so that in Debian the
blends can in the future be added to the tasksel menu in the Debian
Installer. This created a bit of noise in the diff, but is harmless for
Ubuntu.

The makefile (make dist target) will (from memory) take the release info
from the changelog, download the latest apt cache for that release, move
packages from "Depends" to "Recommends", and any unavailable packages to
"Suggests" in the metapackage. This avoids un-installability issues if
the packages get removed later. So depending on what day you build it,
the result could be different. It think there was also a change in the
way the packages get sorted, that makes the diff harder to read as well.

Closer to the yaketty release, I plan to do another build to make sure
the metapackage is as up to date as possible for the release. For Ubuntu
Studio, we are particularly interested in the puredata metapackage which
is seeded so we don't need to maintain a list of all the puredata
packages manually.

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Title:
  Please merge debian-multimedia 0.5 (universe) from Debian unstable
  (main)

Status in debian-multimedia package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Just need to regenerate the d/control file for yakkety.

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