Bug#740566: gbp-dch: --git-author doesn't work

[James McCoy]

Control: reassign -1 git-buildpackage 0.6.10

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:52:14PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> "gbp dch" invokes dch and allows to set the
> author to the git author relying on expansion of DEBFULLNAME but it
> seems DEBFULLNAME is not honored anymore when adding new entries but
> not a new section:
> …
> This is a behaviour changed
> introduced earlier this year. Was there a reason for this change?

This behavior change was introduced in 2.11.7:

devscripts (2.11.7) unstable; urgency=low

  The heuristic used to determine what action to perform when no options are
  given to debchange now defaults to 'changelog'.  To stay with the previous
  behavior, DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=log can be added to the configuration
  file.

  Enabling the changelog heuristic also enables DEBCHANGE_MAINTTRAILER.  This
  can be disabled by adding DEBCHANGE_MAINTTRAILER=no to the configuration
  file.

 -- James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>  Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:38:46 -0400

DEBCHANGE_MAINTTRAILER=yes only updates the changelog trailer line when
creating a new stanza (dch -i/-a/--qa/etc.) and updating the changelog
for release (dch -r) in order to reduce extraneous noise in the diffs.

If you want to update the trailer line, then use --nomainttrailer.

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