On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 21:30 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> I have a changelog that starts with these lines:
>
> $ head -n 18 debian/changelog
> haskell-zlib (0.5.0.0-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
[...]
> -- Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009
> 11:54:27 -0300
[..]
> I’m not Marco. When I run "dch" without any options (and --multimaint enabled
> by default), I get an editor which offers me:
[multi-maintainer headers]
> as expected. But running
> $ dch -m 'Provide and Replace the previous -doc package name'
> instead generates:
[changelog with no multi-maintainer headers]
> where I would expect debchange to also add a name header.
This is actually documented in debchange(1):
--maintmaint, -m
Do not modify the maintainer details previously listed in
the
changelog. This is useful particularly for sponsors wanting to
auto‐
matically add a sponsorship message without disrupting the
other
changelog details. Note that there may be some interesting
interac‐
tions if multi-maintainer mode is in use; you will probably
wish to
check the changelog manually before uploading it in such cases.
Patches welcome if you're brave enough to dive into the code. :-)
Alternatively, if you were expecting -m to mean "message" as in
"debcommit -m" or "svn ci -m" then you're not the only person I know of
who's made that assumption, but it's incorrect. You don't need any
special options to add text to the changelog with debchange - any
non-option text on the command line is automatically inserted, so you
only need
$ dch 'Provide and Replace the previous -doc package name'
Regards,
Adam
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