OBS fails to set CI_CNT.B_CNT in Debian builds

[jengelh]

[   33s] -----------------------------------------------------------------
[   33s] I have the following modifications for gsoap-zarafa.spec:
[   33s] 5c5
[   33s] < Release:        0
[   33s] ---
[   33s] > Release:        23.1
[   33s] -----------------------------------------------------------------
[   33s] ----- building gsoap-zarafa.spec (user abuild)
[   33s] -----------------------------------------------------------------

This substitution is only done for RPM specfiles, but not for the Debian descriptions. This leads to rebuilds always carrying the same filename even if CI_CNT or B_CNT actually increased, and apt-get dist-upgrade will subsequently never pick the new builds for installation because of this.

[dg0yt]

It seems to be missing from the wiki page:

You need to have DEBTRANSFORM-RELEASE: 1 in your .dsc file. See 53e20eb.

[dg0yt]

You must also provide a separate "debian.changelog" file with at least one changelog entry, according to that commit. I updated to wiki page.

[hennevogel]

Thanks for the edits @dg0yt

[dg0yt]

For the record, DEBTRANSFORM-RELEASE will work (debtransform will be run) only if there is any debian.* file. It doesn't need to be the changelog.

It is implemented in build-recipe-dsc and debtransform which reside in the https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-build repository.

[adrianschroeter]

that functionality is just not implemented in the build script. You may want to create a pull request for build-recipe-arch ...

[leukimi]

I do not have the code to achieve pkgrel=<CI_CNT>.<B_CNT> and propose a merge to build-recipe-arch.

Is there, in your opinion, a way to achieve this functionality by adapting the code that sets the version in Fedora/openSUSE/Debian builds? Maybe the current code can be reused to include the sane functionality to Manjaro/Archlinux builds by automatically updating the default pkgrel=1 field in file PKGBUILD when a rebuild is made. Do you think that would be possible?