Package: devscripts Version: 2.17.9 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/debchange
I thought I fixed in git repo for https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842468 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845610 by updating uupdate to run debchange with empty string: - debchange $BADVERSION -v "$NEW_VERSION-$SUFFIX" "New upstream release" + if [ -z "$BADVERSION" ]; then + debchange -v "$NEW_VERSION-$SUFFIX" "New upstream release" + else + debchange $BADVERSION -v "$NEW_VERSION-$SUFFIX" "" + fi If "" is the text to be added to the changelog, debchange skips making line with "*". This seems to intentional design decision of debchange which I have no idea why. (Code logic around it is a bit complicated. So I may be wrong) This kind of changelog chokes other tools parsing it. pkg-parsechangelog: warning: debian/changelog(l4): found trailer where expected start of change data LINE: -- Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> Sat, 09 Sep 2017 10:10:20 +0900 To me, it is better to create an empty entry to be modified later by the maintainer. If no objection, I will try to update debchange. Otherwise, I will re-update uupdate to use non-null string such as debchange $BADVERSION -v "$NEW_VERSION-$SUFFIX" "[Edit this line before uploading]" (Second option really doesn't fix bugs 842468 and 845610) Osamu _______________________________________________ devscripts-devel mailing list devscripts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devscripts-devel
