Bug#784397: devscripts: [debchange] Support un-finalised trailer line for UNRELEASED changelog entry

[Ben Finney]

Control: retitle -1 devscripts: [debchange] Support un-finalised trailer line for UNRELEASED changelog entry

On 06-May-2015, Ben Finney wrote:

> Instead, ‘debchange --release’ should recognise an unfinalised
> trailer line as valid for this action, and replace the line with a
> finalised trailer line for the release.


On 11-May-2015, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Note that the problem isn't only in debchange. dpkg-buildpackage
> also seems to suffer from unfinalized trailers:

I think you're describing behaviour different from this report.

‘dpkg-buildpackage’ expects the changelog entry to be finalised.
That's right and proper, and should not be changed for this bug
report.

‘debchange --release’ should handle an unfinalised changelog entry,
because the whole point of that action is to *alter* the changelog
entry to finalise it for release.

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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