Bug#672973: devscripts: stopped updating the time stamps of the changelog

[Norbert Preining]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.11.7
Severity: normal

Hi,

in former times a 
	dch -a -c .../path/to/changelog
did indeed update the name and date footer. Now it doesn't anymore.

Why has this change happened? I don't see any NEWS item concerning this?
The only NEWS item is about release heuristic if nothing is given, but
I definitely pass options onto dch.

Please restore the old behaviour, or at least explain how to fix it,
because I couldn't find it. dch -t didn't work either.


-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (499, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.0-rc7+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev   1.16.3
ii  libc6      2.13-32
ii  perl       5.14.2-10
ii  python     2.7.2-10
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                      7.25.0-1
ii  dctrl-tools               2.22
ii  debian-keyring            2012.02.22
ii  dput                      0.9.6.3
ii  equivs                    2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                  1.18.3-1
ii  gnupg                     1.4.12-4
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-perl      0.58-1
ii  libjson-perl              2.53-1
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl  2.005-3
ii  libsoap-lite-perl         0.714-1
ii  liburi-perl               1.60-1
ii  libwww-perl               6.04-1
ii  lintian                   2.5.7
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
ii  python-magic              5.11-1
ii  sensible-utils            0.0.7
ii  strace                    4.5.20-2.3
ii  unzip                     6.0-6
ii  wdiff                     1.1.0-2
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
ii  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
ii  devscripts-el                <none>
ii  gnuplot                      4.6.0-8
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1500-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.04-3
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.01-3
ii  libterm-size-perl            0.207-1
ii  libtimedate-perl             1.2000-1
ii  libyaml-syck-perl            <none>
ii  mutt                         1.5.21-5+b1
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:5.9p1-5
ii  svn-buildpackage             0.8.4
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-7

-- no debconf information