Package: sbuild
Version: 0.73.0-4
Severity: wishlist

Dear maintainer,

I am updating a package that is already in backports and would like to 
upload a source-only changes that includes the changes in unstable since 
the previous backport. I ran sbuild something like:

sbuild -A -d stretch-backports -s --source-only-changes 
--debbuildopts='-v(current backports version)' pkg.dsc

The _amd64.changes produced has the desired changes, but when generating 
the source-only changes, it just ran dpkg-genchanges --build=source and 
thus the _source.changes only has the last changelog entry.

I understand that simply passing the --debbuildopts to dpkg-genchanges 
is probably not feasible, since they might not all be dpkg-genchanges 
options, and it does not seem like it should be sbuild's responsibility 
to parse and extract them.

I can't be the first person who's wanted to do this? I hope I haven't 
missed an obvious existing setting that does what I want.

Thank you
Ryan

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