Hi Felipe, On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:34:26PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Package: git-buildpackage > Version: 0.4.59 > Severity: wishlist > > A pretty common workflow is the following: > > 1- Work on the package > 2- Upload > 3- Import new upstream version > 4- Create changelog entry for local testing > 5- Some more work > 6- Upload > > This works like a charm with --auto. However, when steps 3 and 5 are in > another order (eg, you fixed something and then updated the new upstream > version), git-dch misses all the entries from before the new changelog > entry. A way to pick up all the changes since the last released version > would be gratly appreciated. > I'm thinking this can be done by making git-dch ignore changelog > versions marked as UNRELEASED to guess the version (and thus having to > use -s), but that would mean having to parse debian/changelog instead of > using dpkg-parsechangelog.
Sorry for picking this up _that_ late. I wonder if there really is s.th. to fix here. If you create a changelog entry (4.) afer doing local modifications you ought to do so with gbp-dch. If you don't, you're basically telling gbp-dch: "I want these entries ignored". If you create the changelog entry for local testing using "gbp-dch --auto" everything is fine. We could do as you suggested and ignore entries marked UNRELEASED but I'd rather have people use "gbp-dch" for the local testing entries as well or is that unreasonable? Cheers, -- Guido
