Bug#677185: devscripts: The --vendor option only knows about Debian/Ubuntu

[Daniel Dehennin]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.11.8
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/debchange

Dear Maintainer,

According to the manpage:

  --vendor vendor
         Override the distributor ID over the default returned by dpkg-
         vendor.  This name is used for heuristics applied to new
         package versions and for sanity checking of the target
         distribution.

Unfortunately, this only works for Debian/Ubuntu, I thought that this
--vendor will make versions like '<upstream>-X<vendor>Y'

Maybe, the "<vendor>" part could be generalized, this will permit, for example, to
make version numbers per distribution.

Regards.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (90, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.0+hati.2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev   1.16.3
ii  libc6      2.13-33
ii  perl       5.14.2-11
ii  python     2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python2.6  2.6.7-4
ii  python2.7  2.7.3~rc2-2.1

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                        3.1.13-1
ii  curl                      7.26.0-1
ii  dctrl-tools               2.22.2
ii  debian-keyring            2012.06.01
ii  dput                      0.9.6.3
pn  equivs                    <none>
ii  fakeroot                  1.18.4-2
ii  gnupg                     1.4.12-4
pn  libcrypt-ssleay-perl      <none>
ii  libdistro-info-perl       0.10
ii  libjson-perl              2.53-1
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl  2.005-3
pn  libsoap-lite-perl         <none>
ii  liburi-perl               1.60-1
ii  libwww-perl               6.04-1
ii  lintian                   2.5.8
ii  man-db                    2.6.1-2
ii  patch                     2.6.1-3
ii  patchutils                0.3.2-1.1
ii  python-debian             0.1.21
pn  python-magic              <none>
ii  sensible-utils            0.0.7
ii  strace                    4.5.20-2.3
ii  unzip                     6.0-6
ii  wdiff                     1.1.2-1
ii  wget                      1.13.4-3
ii  xz-utils                  5.1.1alpha+20110809-3

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1
ii  build-essential              11.5
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
ii  devscripts-el                35.2
pn  gnuplot                      <none>
ii  heirloom-mailx [mailx]       12.5-2
pn  libauthen-sasl-perl          <none>
pn  libfile-desktopentry-perl    <none>
pn  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         <none>
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             1.2000-1
ii  libyaml-syck-perl            1.20-1
ii  mailx                        1:20081101-2
ii  mutt                         1.5.21-5+b1
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.0p1-1
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-8

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