dlatest: Query the Debian archive for the latest available version of the package (was: Closing bugs, incrementing release number, and uploads to mentors.debian.net)
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- Subject: dlatest: Query the Debian archive for the latest available version of the package (was: Closing bugs, incrementing release number, and uploads to mentors.debian.net)
- From: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:20:57 +1100
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Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> It would be great to get this into debuild as an option, so that you
> could pass it some flag and it would do this work to figure out the
> last Debian version and include all the changelog entries to that
> point.
>
> Maybe someone (Ben, perhaps?) could open a wishlist bug against
> devscripts with the final version of the code?
The program is done to my satisfaction now, and a bug report filed
<URL:http://bugs.debian.org/517962>.
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