Re: binNMUs: please exercise some care

On 2015-10-23 12:02, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> 
>> wanna-build does, yes, but at least the Release Team tend to use the 
>> "wb"
>> wrapper tool which automatically works out the next free number on 
>> each
>> architecture.
> 
> Ah, cool – so we have only to patch this tool to automatically
> use the highest number per batch on all affected architectures
> (or even to use the highest number if all architectures would
> be touched, but that’s probably an unreasonable amount of code
> change).

Well, except you only really want to do it for libraries that are 
ma:same, as that's the only case where it actually matters and otherwise 
you're pointlessly losing versions.

It's also not quite that simple, even working things out by hand - see 
#599128 for example.

> Where’s the source code to that tool?

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-release/release-tools.git/ (in 
scripts/).

Regards,

Adam