Debian Bug report logs - #853795
dpkg: Unable to disable .buildinfo generation

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dpkg: Unable to disable .buildinfo generation

Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 23:52:45 +0100

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.18.21
Severity: normal

Hi, 

Ubuntu ppa's (launchpad) do not support .buildinfo files and reject
them:

Rejected: Unable to identify file icinga2_2.6.1-1~ppa1~trusty1_source.buildinfo
  (admin) in changes.
  Further error processing not possible because of a critical previous
  error.

Please make it possible to disable .buildinfo generation or inclusion in
changes files. 

Thanks
Alex
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0   1.0.6-8.1
ii  libc6        2.24-9
ii  liblzma5     5.2.2-1.2
ii  libselinux1  2.6-3
ii  tar          1.29b-1.1
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt            1.4~beta4
pn  debsig-verify  <none>

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 853795@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com>

To: 853795@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dpkg: Unable to disable .buildinfo generation

Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:21:39 +0100

As a workaround, I figured out I can pass to debuild

--buildinfo-option="-O"

which makes dpkg-genbuildinfo send the contents of the buildinfo file to 
stdout instead of creating the file, which means that it does not appear 
in the .changes file either.

Message #15 received at 853795-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org>, 853795-done@bugs.debian.org, Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: Bug#853795: dpkg: Unable to disable .buildinfo generation

Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 01:56:02 +0100

Hi!

On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 23:52:45 +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.18.21
> Severity: normal

> Ubuntu ppa's (launchpad) do not support .buildinfo files and reject
> them:
> 
> Rejected: Unable to identify file icinga2_2.6.1-1~ppa1~trusty1_source.buildinfo
>   (admin) in changes.
>   Further error processing not possible because of a critical previous
>   error.
> 
> Please make it possible to disable .buildinfo generation or inclusion in
> changes files. 

Launchpad has supported .buildinfo files for a while now.

On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 18:21:39 +0100, Sandro Mani wrote:
> As a workaround, I figured out I can pass to debuild
> 
> --buildinfo-option="-O"
> 
> which makes dpkg-genbuildinfo send the contents of the buildinfo file to
> stdout instead of creating the file, which means that it does not appear in
> the .changes file either.

And there's this workaround. So I don't think there's much point in
adding explicit support to disable this. I'm thus closing this request.
If you still would like to see support for this, please reopen.

Thanks,
Guillem

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