Re: Merge request friendly handling of debian/changelog

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

Hi,
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 07:35:55AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> I agree that better handling of things like debian/changelog is
> something we should focus effort on.
> 
> I think we can either  do something gbp dch like, possibly allowing
> commits to annotate whether and to what extent they should be included
> in changelog.

gbp dch has flags for that can be part of the commit message:

  Gbp-Dch: Ignore

and

  Gbp-Dch: Short

Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> Or  some code that knows how to merge changelogs
> 
> Or some file based approach like you discuss.
> 
> I think exploring options like these and getting experience would be
> great for Debian.
>