Bug#712030: dch: -e option no longer updates timestamp

[James McCoy]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:02:20PM +0200, Dario Minnucci wrote:
>   -e, --edit
>          Don't change version number or add a new changelog entry, just
>          update the changelog's stamp and open up an editor
> 
> 
> I don't know since when, but -e option is no longer updating timestamp.

This depends on DEBCHANGE_MAINTTRAILER option, which defaults to "on"
when the changelog DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC is being used.  The
release heuristic was changed to "changelog" by default in Wheezy, so
this is why you're seeing a different behavior now.

I guess Julien's suggested change to the help makes sense, since the
above is too much to document in --help.

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