Package: devscripts
Version: 2.16.5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear maintainer,
According to the manpage, the --newversion should append to the
current changelog entry if the current release is UNRELEASED:
| If DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC is changelog (default) and the current
| release is UNRELEASED, this will only change the version of the
| current changelog stanza. Otherwise, this will create a new changelog
| stanza with the new version.
This doesn't hold when the --distribution option is being used. Instead,
a new changelog entry is created, leaving the old one (UNRELEASED) entry
intact.
I have provided a patch that fixes tha above error.
Cheers,
--
Ilias
diff --git a/scripts/debchange.pl b/scripts/debchange.pl
index db52b60..af6176c 100755
--- a/scripts/debchange.pl
+++ b/scripts/debchange.pl
@@ -1219,8 +1219,7 @@ if (($opt_i || $opt_n || $opt_bn || $opt_qa || $opt_R || $opt_s || $opt_team ||
if (($opt_v or $opt_i or $opt_l or $opt_d) and
$opt_release_heuristic eq 'changelog' and
- $changelog->{Distribution} eq 'UNRELEASED' and
- $distribution eq 'UNRELEASED') {
+ $changelog->{Distribution} eq 'UNRELEASED') {
$merge = 1;
} else {
