Bug#762715: updates to dch --lts

[James McCoy]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:10:37PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> On 2016-10-28 20:10:43, Holger Levsen wrote:
> >> Since this may change again in the future before this issue is resolved,
> >> maybe it's better to just refer to the LTS notes here:
> >> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development#Build_the_update
> >
> > no. "dch --lts" should do the right thing - and just like "dch --bpo" it
> > will be outdated & in need of an update once in a while - each time we
> > release… \o/ yay! :)
> 
> There are probably ways to make it use variables instead of hardcoding
> (say) "wheezy-security"... :)
> 
> I looked at the code and there are around 14 instances of "$opt_s" in
> the code. Either we need to duplicate that or make --lts enable $opt_s
> and customize some bits of it.
> 
> Did we ever hear from the maintainers of devscripts to see if a patch
> would be accepted? I'd be happy to fix that up... it doesn't look too
> hard.

Yes, patches are accepted.  See also #800413. :)

Cheers,
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James
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