Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > Nooo... Look at this page, in the paragraph about urgency: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-manual/ch-sourcepkg.html#s-dpkgchangelog > > Closes would be a keyword, like urgency, and can be handled by the current > keyword=value system, just like urgency. It should be something like > > foo (1.0-2) unstable; urgency=low, closes=10002 11930 10109
Great, whoever thought up the changelog format was on the ball and provided for future expansion. :-) I just did a little experiment: unpacked a source package, added something like the above to the changelog, built the package. It works! Right out of the box, no changes needed. Oh, there are some complaints: parsechangelog/debian: warning: unknown key-value key Closes - copying to XS-Closes, at changelog line 1 And here is the resulting .changes file. Format: 1.5 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500 Source: debhelper Binary: debhelper Architecture: source all Version: 0.14 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: debhelper - helper programs for debian/rules Changes: debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low, closes=10002 10021 20222 . * Fixed a number of bugs (just testing). Files: 8b563893956a0f2e66bc0085c0cc8a9e 511 devel optional debhelper_0.14.dsc c8f2e00b4414a78a6f274f0efdb75fb9 18017 devel optional debhelper_0.14.tar.gz 544c262dc1c680356c5ec644a148dbc7 28912 devel optional debhelper_0.14_all.deb It looks like we could start using this today. -- see shy jo
