Adam D. Barratt wrote: > reassign 452806 dpkg > retitle 452806 [dpkg-parsechangelog] Please maintain trailing whitespace > kthxbye > > Hi, > > On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 11:41 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Package: devscripts > > Version: 2.10.10 > > Severity: normal > > File: /usr/bin/dch > > > > When "dch -a" is called, it strips any whitespace at the end of lines in > > the existing changelog entries. > > > > This is very annoying for team-maintained packages, especially combined > > to debcommit which then considers these lines as having changed and adds > > them to the commit message. > > debchange simply parses the output of dpkg-parsechangelog(1) in order to > derive the changes. dpkg-pc is stripping the whitespace before debchange > begins processing it; I'm therefore reassigning the bug. Fine, but debcommit should use diff -w .. -- see shy jo
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