Adeodato Simó wrote: > I've thought about this several times, and I think what'd make me happy > would be, instead of this dist=UNRELEASED stuff to mark work in progress > in VCS, something like: > > package (1.1) unstable; urgency=low > > [ Joe Random ] > * Foo. > > -- UNRELEASED This is very annoying when doing a test build, since it's not a valid changelog format and so you have to fake up some release date (and remember to undo it afterwards). > Pity that dpkg-parsechangelog would choke on that, and also, I haven't > heard anybody express discontent about this, so maybe I'm too picky, > which makes me think that everybody is happy with using dist=UNRELEASED > and updating the timestamp with each commit (or not doing, and risk > forgetting to do so the last time before uploading). It would be fairly easy to make dch only update the date when doing a dch -r. -- see shy jo
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