On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 05:28:52PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 02:56:46PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > In short, it's up to you. > > I was told that "Closes: #12345"-like entries in the changelog > only close bugs which are mentioned in the most recent release. > You must close bugs in older (but not uploaded) releases > manually.
You can compensate for this with the little-known -v option to dpkg-buildpackage. If you're building version 1.3, and the latest version in the archive is 1.1, you can specify -v1.1 to get all the changelog entries after 1.1 in your changes file. Richard Braakman
