Your message dated Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:02:50 +0000
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and subject line Bug#597675: fixed in devscripts 2.10.71
has caused the Debian Bug report #597675,
regarding devscripts: [debchange] --allow-lower-version needs pattern option
argument
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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
-- no debconf information
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Source: devscripts
Source-Version: 2.10.71
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
devscripts, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
devscripts_2.10.71.dsc
to main/d/devscripts/devscripts_2.10.71.dsc
devscripts_2.10.71.tar.gz
to main/d/devscripts/devscripts_2.10.71.tar.gz
devscripts_2.10.71_i386.deb
to main/d/devscripts/devscripts_2.10.71_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
James Vega <[email protected]> (supplier of updated devscripts package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:23:20 -0500
Source: devscripts
Binary: devscripts
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.10.71
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Devscripts Devel Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: James Vega <[email protected]>
Description:
devscripts - scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
Closes: 595893 597675 599354 610072 613502 613941
Changes:
devscripts (2.10.71) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Christoph Berg ]
* debcommit (git): Don't treat "no files to commit" as an error when called
with --release, otherwise it is not possible to tag after the final build.
.
[ James Vega ]
* bts:
+ Use Pod::Text to remove POD markup before displaying the help. (Closes:
#613502)
+ Document that whitespace is required around the dot/comma separating
command stanzas. (Closes: #595893)
* dget: Ignore IO::File errors from local cache when a URL is given.
The local cache should be used when accessible, but not prevent downloads
when it isn't. (Closes: #599354)
* build-rdeps: Remove hard-coded path for grep-dctrl.
* debchange:
+ Require an argument for the --allow-lower-version option. (Closes:
#597675)
+ Since the entry added by --closes requires editing anyway, require the
user to save the changelog for it update the original changelog.
.
[ Patrick Schoenfeld ]
* build-rdeps: Update release_pattern for the new InRelease release files,
which apt began downloading in newer versions instead of the Release file.
(Closes: #613941)
.
[ Ron Lee ]
* cowpoke: try to rsync source files to the build host. (Closes: #610072)
Thanks to Joachim Breitner for the idea and initial patch.
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