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

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

"Paul Wise" <pabs@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Maybe add some script using rmadison/etc to ~/.devscripts that adds
> to DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS?
> 
> That would be the lazy way

Thanks, I wasn't aware of ‘rmadison’, I'm reading the man page now.

> usually you would remember because you'd debdiff and interdiff
> against the .deb and .diff.gz in the archive.

How will those help me to get information about the package I'm about
to build *before* issuing the commands to build it?

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