Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.9.25 Severity: wishlist Hi Guido!
"gbp dch" generates entries for debian/changelog based on Git commit messages. Best practice in Git is that the first line of a Git commit message is email subject-style, i.e. without a trailing dot. (see https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Contributing-to-a-Project) However, the overwhelming practice in Debian (albeit not required or explicitly recommended by policy) is to use full dots at the end of each item in the changelog. (see https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#debian-changelog-debian-changelog for the part of policy that covers the changelog) This makes it hard to stick to the convention in both systems while using gbp dch; using commit messages without a trailing dot (per Git convention) means having to add trailing dots in debian/changelog afterwards. Would you consider having "gbp dch" add trailing dots in changelog messages if they're missing? (background: discussion in https://salsa.debian.org/jelmer/debian-janitor/-/issues/248; the janitor attempts to accomodate "gbp dch" users but ends up violating Git convention for commit messages by doing so) Jelmer -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages git-buildpackage depends on: ii devscripts 2.22.1 ii git 1:2.34.1-1 ii man-db 2.10.0-2 ii python3 3.9.8-1 ii python3-dateutil 2.8.1-6 ii python3-pkg-resources 59.6.0-1.2 ii sensible-utils 0.0.17 Versions of packages git-buildpackage recommends: ii cowbuilder 0.89 ii pbuilder 0.231 ii pristine-tar 1.49 ii python3-requests 2.25.1+dfsg-2 Versions of packages git-buildpackage suggests: pn python3-notify2 <none> ii sudo 1.9.9-1 ii unzip 6.0-26 -- debconf-show failed
