Bug#712030: The inline help is wrong

Julien Puydt julien.puydt at laposte.net
Mon Jun 17 19:50:10 UTC 2013


Hi,

I have noticed the same behaviour ; in fact:
- "dch -e" doesn't update time stamps ;
- "man dch" says it isn't supposed to update timestamps ;
- "dch --help" says it does.

So it's just a matter of applying the trivial patch at the end of this mail.

I hope that helps,

Snark on #debian-science


diff --git a/scripts/debchange.pl b/scripts/debchange.pl
index 98acd63..e16c2c2 100755
--- a/scripts/debchange.pl
+++ b/scripts/debchange.pl
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Options:
           Add a new changelog entry with version number specified
    -e, --edit
           Don't change version number or add a new changelog entry, just
-         update the changelog's stamp and open up an editor
+         open up an editor
    -r, --release
           Update the changelog timestamp. If the distribution is set to
           "UNRELEASED", change it to unstable (or another distribution as



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