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Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.35
Severity: normal
I see more and more people with changelog entries like:
* /etc/acpi/battery.d is ignored on newer kernels (Closes: #491396)
The changelog entry describes the problem instead of the fix (or the
change done to avoid the problem). After discussion with the maintainer
he told me "I was lazy enough to keep the output of
dch --closes <n>".
For reference, the proper changelog entry should have been something like
this:
* adapt foo to use the new /sys/class/power_supply interface
instead of the /proc/acpi/ one which got removed in kernel 2.6.26.
Closes: #491396
So I really believe that as-is this option is encouraging bad practices
concerning changelog entries. I suggest to put a warning in the manpage
and to change what's added so that it becomes a template like this:
* Fix "<bug subject>": <explain the change and why it's needed> (Closes: #<bug>)
The developer should then replace the <explain...> part.
Thanks for your consideration.
-- Package-specific info:
--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---
--- ~/.devscripts ---
DEBRELEASE_UPLOADER=dput
DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog
DEBCHANGE_MULTIMAINT_MERGE=yes
DEBCHANGE_PRESERVE=yes
DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS="--color always -I"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.0 Debian package development tools
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii perl 5.10.0-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii at 3.1.10.1 Delayed job execution and batch pr
ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii bzr 1.5-1 easy to use distributed version co
ii curl 7.18.2-7 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or
ii cvs 1:1.12.13-11 Concurrent Versions System
ii dctrl-tools 2.13.0 Command-line tools to process Debi
ii debian-keyring 2008.07.22 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D
ii debian-maintainers 1.42 GPG keys of Debian maintainers
ii dput 0.9.2.32 Debian package upload tool
ii dupload 2.6.4 utility to upload Debian packages
ii elinks [www-browse 0.11.4-2 advanced text-mode WWW browser
ii epiphany-gecko [ww 2.22.3-1 Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck
ii equivs 2.0.7-0.1 Circumvent Debian package dependen
ii fakeroot 1.9.6 Gives a fake root environment
ii galeon [www-browse 2.0.6-2 GNOME web browser for advanced use
ii git-core 1:1.5.6.3-1.1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi
ii gnupg 1.4.9-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii iceape-browser [ww 1.1.11-1 Iceape Navigator (Internet browser
ii iceweasel [www-bro 3.0.1-1 lightweight web browser based on M
ii libauthen-sasl-per 2.12-1 Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication
ii libcrypt-ssleay-pe 0.57-1+b1 Support for https protocol in LWP
ii libparse-debcontro 2.005-2 Easy OO parsing of Debian control-
ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.710.08-1 Client and server side SOAP implem
ii libterm-size-perl 0.2-4+b1 Perl extension for retrieving term
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii libwww-perl 5.813-1 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.05-1 Fast, lightweight YAML loader and
ii links [www-browser 2.1pre37-1.1 Web browser running in text mode
ii lintian 1.24.3 Debian package checker
ii lsb-release 3.2-19 Linux Standard Base version report
ii lynx-cur [www-brow 2.8.7dev9-1.2 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup
ii mailx 1:20071201-3 Transitional package for mailx ren
ii man-db 2.5.2-2 on-line manual pager
ii openssh-client [ss 1:5.1p1-2 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original
ii patchutils 0.2.31-4 Utilities to work with patches
ii strace 4.5.17+cvs080723-2 A system call tracer
ii subversion 1.5.1dfsg1-1 Advanced version control system
ii tla 1.3.5+dfsg-14 GNU Arch revision control system
ii unzip 5.52-12 De-archiver for .zip files
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-2+b1 WWW browsable pager with excellent
ii wdiff 0.5-18 Compares two files word by word
ii wget 1.11.4-1 retrieves files from the web
Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent
pn cvs-buildpackage <none> (no description available)
pn devscripts-el <none> (no description available)
pn gnuplot <none> (no description available)
ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.04-1 Perl module to handle freedesktop
pn libnet-smtp-ssl-perl <none> (no description available)
ii mutt 1.5.18-4 text-based mailreader supporting M
ii svn-buildpackage 0.6.23 helper programs to maintain Debian
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: devscripts
Source-Version: 2.10.40
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
devscripts, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
devscripts_2.10.40.dsc
to pool/main/d/devscripts/devscripts_2.10.40.dsc
devscripts_2.10.40.tar.gz
to pool/main/d/devscripts/devscripts_2.10.40.tar.gz
devscripts_2.10.40_amd64.deb
to pool/main/d/devscripts/devscripts_2.10.40_amd64.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Adam D. Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated devscripts package)
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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:18:27 +0000
Source: devscripts
Binary: devscripts
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 2.10.40
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Devscripts Devel Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Adam D. Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
devscripts - scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
Closes: 483657 488717 495743 496065 497988 497995 499050 499264 499397 501252
501568 502516 502517 503378 503950 504017
Changes:
devscripts (2.10.40) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Adam D. Barratt ]
* bts:
+ Update the manpage to mention local caching in the description
section and correct a typo. (Closes: #499397)
+ Accept a command consisting purely of a comment. (Closes: #501252)
* cowpoke:
+ Update to new upstream version
- Multiple architecture and distribution support.
- Options are now specified using --option rather than being listed
after the .dsc file.
- There is now a --create option to allow new build roots to be
easily created.
- There are two new configuration file options BUILDD_DIST (the
default distribution for which packages will be built) and
DEBOOTSTRAP, allowing one to specify which of {c,}debootstrap
should be used.
- The RESULT_DIR configuration variable has been replaced by
PBUILDER_BASE which points to pbuilder's base folder under which
architecture and distribution directories will be created.
- cowpoke.conf now supports per-arch and per-distribution options.
* debchange:
+ Don't attempt to automatically determine if the current changelog is
an NMU if an alternative changelog location was specified using the
CHANGELOG environment variable.
+ Update the Ubuntu distribution list. Add jaunty and remove the
no-longer supported warty, hoary, edgy and fiesty. Also add
"-backports" as a supported "extension".
+ Modify the message produced by --closes to make it clearer that it
is intended to be edited to add details of the bug and fix as
appropriate. (Closes: #495743)
* debcommit:
+ Allow --release to be combined with --edit or --confirm. Based on
a patch by Eric Gerlach. (Closes: #497988)
+ Allow a newly initialised (i.e. containing no HEAD) git tree to be
committed to. Based on a patch by Eric Gerlach. (Closes: #497995)
* debdiff: Correctly handle hyphenated distribution names when generating
a diff against the previous version of the package. (Closes: #503950)
* getbuildlog:
+ Apply some patches from Jörg Sommer (Closes: #496065)
- Unescape %7Es in log URLs to allow explicitly searching for
package versions containing tildes.
- Simplify a couple of variable assignments and use shell string
operations to extract the version and architecture from the logs.
+ Allow the logs for the build with the largest version number to be
easily retrieved. Based on a patch by Jörg Sommer.
* licensecheck: Match a couple more variants on the wording of a
3-clause BSD license. (Closes: #503378)
* nmudiff: Require an explicit confirmation as to whether the generated
mail should be sent, rather than defauling to not sending it.
(Closes: #483657)
* tagpending: Don't output a spurious empty line near the end of the
changelog comments under some circumstances.
* uscan:
+ Document the USCAN_TIMEOUT configuration file variable.
(Closes: #502517)
+ Add a USCAN_REPACK configuration file variable indicating that bzip
tar or zip archives should always be repacked to gzip tar archives.
(Closes: #502516)
.
[ Christoph Berg ]
* debian/control: Remove the Dm-Upload-Allowed flag.
.
[ Stefano Zacchiroli ]
* debcheckout:
+ try to guess repository type when given raw URLs
+ update user info about Vcs-* fields (correct developers' reference
section, add an URL to it)
+ suggest using apt-get source as a fallback (Closes: #488717)
+ add support to define custom rules for authenticated mode, this way
personal repos can benefit from '-a' (Closes: #501568)
+ add -d/--details option to print extended information about
reopsitories, in machine parseable format. Implement dumping of
TopGit-specific information for TopGit-enabled GIT repositories
+ initialize TopGit's automatically, for GIT repositories which are
recognized as being managed with TopGit (Closes: #499264)
+ add --git-track option to require tracking of remote branches when
checking out GIT repositories (Closes: #499050)
.
[ Patrick Schoenfeld ]
* debsign: Unset GREP_OPTIONS to avoid problems when this variable is set
in the users environment. (Closes: #504017)
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