Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.23 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/debchange
The current release includes two changes in debchange regarding the way NMUs are handled, but of which I find highly questionable. + Set urgency=high if NMU and no other urgency set This is the most questionable change as it invites abuse of urgency. An urgency of high is only appropriate for NMUs that fix RC bugs, but by far not all NMUs are for RC bugs. For all other NMUs, the priority should be the default: low. IMO low should be the default set by debchange as if anything NMU's should be tested in unstable longer rather than shorter. Having a higher default violates the principle of least surprise. It should just be up to NMUers of RC bugs to set the priority correctly for their uploads. + Set to NMU if packager is neither in Uploaders nor Maintainer This has already proven to be incorrect for me today in two cases. - Team maintained D-I packages are frequently uploaded by a team member who's not listed as Uploader, mostly in the case of pre-release uploads for translation updates. These uploads are not NMUs. - I wanted to do a testbuild for a patch for wireless-tools and ran dch to increase the version number so I could later run debdiff to get the patch. As the intention is not to NMU the package, having that set in the changelog is just silly. For these reasons I don't think the new behavior should be default. Cheers, FJP -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBEMAIL="'Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'" DEBSIGN_KEYID="1E880A84" DEBSIGN_MAINT="'Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'" DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS="-i -I -uc -us" DEBUILD_ROOTCMD="fakeroot" DEBUILD_PRESERVE_ENVVARS=DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog DEBCHANGE_MAINTTRAILER=no -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc8 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.28.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg-dev 1.14.16.6 package building tools for Debian ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.5-6 The GNU sed stream editor 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-2 A simple mail user agent ii build-essential 11.3 informational list of build-essent ii cvs 1:1.12.13-10 Concurrent Versions System pn cvs-buildpackage <none> (no description available) ii dctrl-tools 2.12 Command-line tools to process Debi ii debian-keyring 2007.12.04 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D pn debian-maintainers <none> (no description available) pn devscripts-el <none> (no description available) ii dput 0.9.2.30 Debian package upload tool ii equivs 2.0.7-0.1 Circumvent Debian package dependen ii fakeroot 1.9.4 Gives a fake root environment ii git-core 1:1.5.4.5-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii gnupg 1.4.6-2.1 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep pn gnuplot <none> (no description available) ii iceweasel [www-bro 2.0.0.13-1 lightweight web browser based on M ii konqueror [www-bro 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-2+b1 KDE's advanced file manager, web b pn libauthen-sasl-per <none> (no description available) ii libcrypt-ssleay-pe 0.57-1 Support for https protocol in LWP ii libfile-desktopent 0.04-0.1 Perl module to handle freedesktop ii libparse-debcontro 2.005-2 Easy OO parsing of Debian control- pn libsoap-lite-perl <none> (no description available) pn libterm-size-perl <none> (no description available) 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 5.808-1 WWW client/server library for Perl ii lintian 1.23.46 Debian package checker ii lsb-release 3.2-7 Linux Standard Base version report ii mailx 1:20071201-2 Transitional package for mailx ren ii man-db 2.5.1-3 on-line manual pager ii mutt 1.5.17+20080114-1 text-based mailreader supporting M ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original ii patchutils 0.2.31-4 Utilities to work with patches ii perl [libdigest-md 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction pn ssh <none> (no description available) ii strace 4.5.15-1.2 A system call tracer ii subversion 1.4.6dfsg1-2 Advanced version control system ii unzip 5.52-11 De-archiver for .zip files ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.1-5.1+b1 WWW browsable pager with excellent ii wdiff 0.5-17 Compares two files word by word ii wget 1.11.1-1 retrieves files from the web -- no debconf information -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
