Package: devscripts
Version: 2.11.3
Severity: wishlist
User: [email protected]
Usertags: debchange

Dear Devscripts Maintainers,

it would be nice if debchange would have an option to increment the
epoch (or add an epoch of 1 if none is present).

While this is a quite seldom though valid case for normal packaging, it
would be mostly helpful for generating locally modified packages that
should not be overwritten by automatic security updates.

An example from my work today:

$ quilt delete this-and-that.patch
$ dch -l+ourcompany 'Remove this-and-that.patch'
$ sed -e '1 s/(2:/(3:/' -i debian/changelog
$ dch 'Bump epoch to prevent automatic updates for now'

It would be nice if dch would offer an option to do that sed part.

That option should work together at least with -l, likely also with
other version number changing options.

-- Package-specific info:
--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS="-iIE --pedantic"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev   1.16.1.2
ii  libc6      2.13-24
ii  perl       5.14.2-6
ii  python     2.7.2-9
ii  python2.6  2.6.7-4
ii  python2.7  2.7.2-13

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                        3.1.13-1
ii  curl                      7.23.1-3
ii  dctrl-tools               2.20.1
ii  debian-keyring            2011.12.01
ii  dput                      0.9.6.2
ii  dupload                   2.7.0
ii  equivs                    2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                  1.18.2-1
ii  gnupg                     1.4.11-3
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-perl      0.58-1
ii  libjson-perl              2.53-1
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl  2.005-3
ii  libsoap-lite-perl         0.714-1
ii  liburi-perl               1.59-1
ii  libwww-perl               6.03-1
ii  lintian                   2.5.4
ii  man-db                    2.6.0.2-3
ii  patch                     2.6.1-2.1
ii  patchutils                0.3.2-1.1
ii  python-debian             0.1.21
ii  python-magic              5.09-2
ii  sensible-utils            0.0.6
ii  strace                    4.5.20-2.3
ii  unzip                     6.0-5
ii  wdiff                     0.6.5-1
ii  wget                      1.13.4-2
ii  xz-utils                  5.1.1alpha+20110809-3

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1
ii  build-essential              11.5
ii  cvs-buildpackage             5.23
ii  devscripts-el                35.2
ii  gnuplot                      <none>
ii  heirloom-mailx [mailx]       12.5-1
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1500-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.04-3
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.01-3
ii  libterm-size-perl            0.2-4+b3
ii  libtimedate-perl             1.2000-1
ii  libyaml-syck-perl            1.19-1+b1
ii  mutt                         1.5.21-5
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:5.9p1-2
ii  svn-buildpackage             0.8.4
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-5

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