Re: Closing bugs, incrementing release number, and uploads to mentors.debian.net

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> 
> > I never invoke ‘dpkg-genchanges’ manually; that's done by
> > ‘dpkg-buildpackage’, which in turn is usually invoked by something else
> > (e.g. ‘pbuilder’ or ‘bzr-buildpackage’ etc.) Is there a normal way to
> > have ‘dpkg-genchanges’ always understand “include all entries newer
> > than what's currently in Debian”?
> 
> Most of the helpers that sit in front of dpkg-buildpackage will pass the
> -v option all the way through or have some way of doing so, probably for
> precisely this reason.

Okay. So is there a normal way to have the ‘-v’ option during a run
set to “include all entries newer than what's currently in Debian”?
Or do I have to remember to set it manually each time I add a new
release and build?

-- 
 \       “Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish |
  `\                                            the rest.” —Mark Twain |
_o__)                                                                  |
Ben Finney