Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Bug#903598: devscripts: dch -r [something]"):
> Control: notfound -1 2.17.6+dub9u1
> Control: found -1 2.17.6
> Control: user devscri...@qa.debian.org
> Control: usertag -1 debchange
> Control: retitle -1 devscripts: dch -r doesn't do anything with the supplied
> string
>
> (so that unstable is affected as well…)
Ah, yes. Indeed.
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 06:37:27PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Consider
> > dch -r `foo'
> >
> > dch ignores `foo', which is `TEXT', in the sense that `foo' does not
> > appear in the resulting changelog entry. *But* if you don't supply
> > `foo' dch runs an editor. And there's no other way to stop it doing
> > so because --no-edit is (unaccountably) not supported.
>
> Ton of things use '' (i.e. empty string). Including debchange's
> testsuite :3
Well, that's helpful information, indeed. I will do the same :-).
Regards,
Ian.
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