Bug#676961: devscripts: please fix dch

[James McCoy]

tag 676961 wontfix
thanks

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:41:48PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> please fix dch, there are several things wrong with it now:

It's not broken.  You can change all of this behavior.

> • it defaults to appending

"dch -e"

> • it no longer fixes the clock when using -a

"dch -a --no-mainttrailer" or set DEBCHANGE_MAINTTRAILER=no

> • with -i the distribution defaults to UNRELEASED

Set DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=log

> Some of them can apparently be changed with configuration
> files, but not with e.g. environment settings,

In general, devscripts ignores the environment except for a few
variables.

> and deploying
> them is a PITA. The last item may actually break binNMU scripts.

"dch --bin-nmu -D unstable" or set DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=log

> So please fix dch and let it behave like before.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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