The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 2f7a9fec310594651f7e3c1f134d4dfab44224c7
Author: James Vega <james...@debian.org>
Date: Thu Sep 29 22:05:17 2011 -0400
debchange: Document that only `$1' backreference replacements are supported.
Closes: #639813
Signed-off-by: James Vega <james...@debian.org>
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 88dc251..4fe8392 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ devscripts (2.11.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
- Update uses of getopt to show usage when getopt fails.
* licensecheck: Recognize more generated files. Thanks to Paweł Hajdan, Jr
for the patch. (Closes: #641497)
+ * debchange: Document that only `$1' backreference replacements are
+ supported. Thanks to Matthijs Kooijman for the patch. (Closes: #639813)
-- Gerfried Fuchs <rho...@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:09:51 +0200
diff --git a/scripts/uscan.1 b/scripts/uscan.1
index 1e240b7..efb1a39 100644
--- a/scripts/uscan.1
+++ b/scripts/uscan.1
@@ -246,6 +246,11 @@ this should not be a problem.
operation is used, only the '\fBg\fR', '\fBi\fR' and '\fBx\fR' flags are
available and
\fIrule\fR may not contain any expressions which have the potential to
execute code (i.e. the (?{}) and (??{}) constructs are not supported).
+
+If the '\fBs\fR' operation is used, the replacement can contain
+backreferences to expressions within parenthesis in the matching regexp,
+like `\fBs/-alpha(\\d*)/.a$1/\fR'. These backreferences must use the
+`\fB$1\fR' syntax, as the `\fB\\1\fR' syntax is not supported.
.TP
\fBdversionmangle=\fIrules\fR
This is used to mangle the Debian version number of the currently
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