Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.61ubuntu5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The debchange man page claims that --allow-lower-version and
DEBCHANGE_LOWER_VERSION_PATTERN are equivalent. The difference is
that DEBCHANGE_LOWER_VERSION_PATTERN works, and --allow-lower-version
can't possibly work in the current code.
The point of these features is to allow setting a lower-comparing
version string if it matches a supplied match pattern. Both features
set an internal variable that will be used for the pattern, but since
--allow-lower-version takes no option argument, it presumably sets the
variable to the integer 1, which is not very useful in the later match
expression.
I discovered this on Ubuntu Lucid, but the but appears to still be
present in latest git source.
Here is an incomplete patch (doesn't fix documentation) to fix the
bug:
diff --git a/scripts/debchange.pl b/scripts/debchange.pl
index 4b62eea..099cadb 100755
--- a/scripts/debchange.pl
+++ b/scripts/debchange.pl
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Options:
-b, --force-bad-version
Force a version to be less than the current one (e.g., when
backporting)
- --allow-lower-version
+ --allow-lower-version=<pattern>
Allow a version to be less than the current one (e.g., when
backporting) if it matches a specified pattern
--force-distribution
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ GetOptions("help|h" => \$opt_help,
"package=s" => \$opt_package,
"v|newversion=s" => \$opt_v,
"b|force-bad-version" => \$opt_b,
- "allow-lower-version" => \$opt_allow_lower,
+ "allow-lower-version=s" => \$opt_allow_lower,
"force-distribution" => \$opt_force_dist,
"d|fromdirname" => \$opt_d,
"p" => \$opt_p,
-- Package-specific info:
--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---
--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers lucid-updates
APT policy: (500, 'lucid-updates'), (500, 'lucid-security'), (500, 'lucid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.1 Debian package development tools
ii libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii perl 5.10.1-8ubuntu2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii 3.1.11-1ubuntu5 Delayed job execution and batch pr
ii 8.1.2-0.20090911cvs-2ubuntu1 simple mail user agent
ii 1:1.12.13-12ubuntu1 Concurrent Versions System
ii 2.14 Command-line tools to process Debi
ii 0.9.5.1ubuntu1 Debian package upload tool
ii 1.14.4-1ubuntu1 Gives a fake root environment
ii 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04 safe and easy web browser from Moz
ii 1:1.7.0.4-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi
ii 1.4.10-2ubuntu1 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii 2.13-1 Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication
ii 2.005-2 Easy OO parsing of Debian control-
ii 0.2-4build3 Perl extension for retrieving term
ii 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl
ii 1.52-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii 5.834-1ubuntu0.1 Perl HTTP/WWW client/server librar
ii 2.3.4ubuntu2 Debian package checker
ii 4.0-0ubuntu8 Linux Standard Base version report
ii 2.8.8dev.2-1 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup
ii 4.43-14ubuntu2 Compression method of 7z format in
ii 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager
ii 1:5.3p1-3ubuntu4 secure shell (SSH) client, for sec
ii 2.6-2ubuntu1 Apply a diff file to an original
ii 0.3.1-2build1 Utilities to work with patches
ii 0.0.1ubuntu3 Utilities for sensible alternative
ii 4.5.19-2 A system call tracer
ii 1.6.6dfsg-2ubuntu1 Advanced version control system
ii 6.0-1build1 De-archiver for .zip files
ii 0.5.2-2.1ubuntu1.1 WWW browsable pager with excellent
ii 0.5-19 Compares two files word by word
ii 1.12-1.1ubuntu2.1 retrieves files from the web
Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii build-essential 11.4build1 Informational list of build-essent
pn cvs-buildpackage <none> (no description available)
pn debian-keyring <none> (no description available)
pn debian-maintainers <none> (no description available)
pn devscripts-el <none> (no description available)
pn equivs <none> (no description available)
pn gnuplot <none> (no description available)
pn libcrypt-ssleay-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libfile-desktopentry- <none> (no description available)
pn libnet-smtp-ssl-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libsoap-lite-perl <none> (no description available)
ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.07-1build1 fast, lightweight YAML loader and
pn mutt <none> (no description available)
pn svn-buildpackage <none> (no description available)
pn ubuntu-dev-tools <none> (no description available)
ii w3m 0.5.2-2.1ubuntu1.1 WWW browsable pager with excellent
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