Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.40
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/debdiff

When preparing an NMU, I often find myself wanting to do

  debdiff *.dsc

in the temporary directory I use. Unfortunately, this will output
a reverse diff, since

  piper:~|master|.tmp/cdt.OjGXfwnN% ls *.dsc                                    
                   #10041
  net-tools_1.60-21.1.dsc  net-tools_1.60-21.dsc

'1' sorts before 'd'. It would be nice to be able to pass --reverse
to debdiff, or set DEBDIFF_REVERSE=yes, to cause it to switch the
two inputs.

It might also be worth to investigate whether it couldn't auto-sort
them; the version numbers are clearly identifiable, and dpkg
--compare-versions does the work...

Cheers,

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
DEBSIGN_KEYID=$DEBKEYID
DEBCOMMIT_RELEASE_USE_CHANGELOG=yes
DEBCHANGE_MULTIMAINT_MERGE=yes
DEBCHANGE_MAINTTRAILER=yes
BTS_CACHE_MODE=mbox
BTS_INCLUDE_RESOLVED=no
BTS_SUPPRESS_ACKS=yes
DEBUILD_LINTIAN=yes
DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS=-i
DEBDIFF_SHOW_DIFFSTAT=yes

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.22    Debian package development tools
ii  libc6                         2.7-16     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                          5.10.0-17  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                 3.1.10.2              Delayed job execution and batch pr
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii  bzr                1.5-1.1               easy to use distributed version co
ii  curl               7.18.2-7              Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or 
ii  cvs                1:1.12.13-12          Concurrent Versions System
ii  dctrl-tools        2.13.0                Command-line tools to process Debi
ii  debian-keyring     2008.09.23            GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D
ii  debian-maintainers 1.47                  GPG keys of Debian maintainers
ii  dillo [www-browser 0.8.6-3               Small and fast web browser
ii  dput               0.9.2.35              Debian package upload tool
ii  equivs             2.0.7-0.1             Circumvent Debian package dependen
ii  fakeroot           1.10.1                Gives a fake root environment
ii  git-core           1:1.6.0.2-1           fast, scalable, distributed revisi
ii  gnupg              1.4.9-3               GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  iceweasel [www-bro 3.0.3-3               lightweight web browser based on M
pn  libauthen-sasl-per <none>                (no description available)
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
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        5.813-1               WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  libyaml-syck-perl  1.05-1                Fast, lightweight YAML loader and 
ii  lintian            2.0.0                 Debian package checker
ii  lsb-release        3.2-20                Linux Standard Base version report
ii  lynx-cur [www-brow 2.8.7dev10-2.1        Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup
ii  man-db             2.5.2-3               on-line manual pager
ii  mercurial          1.0.1-5.1             Scalable distributed version contr
ii  openssh-client [ss 1:5.1p1-3             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  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               1.11.4-2              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)
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.4-1    A command-line driven interactive 
pn  libfile-desktopentry-perl     <none>     (no description available)
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

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