Re: Standardization, large scale changes, innovations
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Now when we upgrade our policies and/or infrastructures, like what was
>> recently proposed for sha1sums instead, this requires manual updating of
>> all our packages for no good reason.
>
> That would be the naive way to implement things. And yes, that
> would be sillly.
>
> I just update code in one place, test it, and then run a script
> that does a git pull for all my packages. The next time I build the
> package, it will pull in the change.
Exactly there is the problem. If you'd use dh_md5sums, a binNMU would be all
that is needed to update your packages (yes, I know that is not yet possible for
arch:all, but I guess the time will come...). In your case we have to wait until
you've decided to upload all of your packages...
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