Re: Bug#703633: debchange --bpo writes bpo60 in debian/changelog as version in wheezy

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

* Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> [2013-03-31 12:04:42 CEST]:
> On Sonntag, 31. März 2013, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > OTOH I am pretty sure that the majority of people using wheezy's "dch
> > --bpo" functionality will be generating backports for wheezy itself
> > and not for oldstable.
> 
> to me thats what I'd call "obvious behaviour" and "obvisouly sane behaviour". 

 Thanks for the ad-hominem.  Great discussion style.

> If it wouldn't wheezy's (or actually,any releases) dch would break, once 
> oldstable (and therefore it's backports suite) will be moved to archive.d.o, 
> which will eventually happen.

 It's a default that can easily be overridden, it's not like it's
something that can't be changed through an option.

> Also it seems more logical to create backports for the suite one is running, 
> and not an outdated suite.

 So you call stable to be outdated?  Interesting approach, and maybe
part of the reason stable has more RC bugs than testing.

 Enjoy,
Rhonda
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