On 11/4/17, Svante Signell <svante.signell@???> wrote:
> Looking at the diff I think you have made some copy/paste errors:
> This is a transitional package to ease upgrades to the ruby-gettext
> package. It can safely be removed.
Fixed.
> BTW: What's the difference between ${source:Version} and
> ${binary:Version}, you prefer the former?
>From man 5 deb-substvars:
===
source:Version
The source package version.
binary:Version
The binary package version (which may differ from source:Version
in a binNMU for example).
===
So, for example, in jessie we have zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1, for it
${source:Version} == 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2 while ${binary:Version} ==
1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
This is required to install proper dependencies when no source changes
where made but packages need to be recompiled (ABI changes, new
directory layout, etc).