On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Guido Günther <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi James,
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:16:59AM -0400, James Vega wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 15:05:51 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 03:29:35PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:34:13AM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
>> > > > What I'd like to get is:
>> > > >
>> > > >   [ Author 1 ]
>> > > >   * foo
>> > > >   * baz
>> > > >
>> > > >   [ Author 2 ]
>> > > >   * bar
>> > > >
>> > > > Would be great if that could be possible.
>> > > Yes, true - I'd like to see this too. The current behaviour is what dch
>> > > does.
>> >
>> > So I'd be great if dch supported this, so it would be easy for git-dch
>> > to use it. So I'm cloning this bug to devscripts.
>>
>> This ability already exists via the DEBCHANGE_MULTIMAINT_MERGE config
>> file option.  If set to yes and --multimaint or DEBCHANGE_MULTIMAINT are
>> also set to yes, then multiple changes by the same author are kept in
>> the same section of the changelog.
> Great news! Any chance this can be passed in via the environment or via
> a commandline option?

Not currently.  I think, at the time it was added, it was assumed the
preference would apply per-person and was sufficient to be present in
~/.devscripts.  I can see how this may need to be tuned per-package
though, so an option to override the user's default could be useful.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]>




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