Bug#690131: devscripts: bts please support 'bts affects <bug> =' to clear the list of affects

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.12.4
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

please add support for

  bts affects <bug> =

to clear the list of affected packages and make the affects command work
like any other flag setting command that supports [+|-|=] arguments.

Getting an error message

  bts affects: mark which package as affected?

for a command that looks veri similar to other working commands is
unexpected.

And affects should default to "+" like for tag, usertag, ... instead of
"=" - as one usually wants to "add another affected package",
clearing/replacing the whole list is much less common.
(I thought I already reported a bug about this "should default to +"
issue somewhere, but couldn't find it right now.)


Andreas