Combining changelog entries with dpkg-genchanges

[Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@debian.org>]

Hello,

In the context of the RFS for febootstrap,
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:16:26AM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> Another note: I built with -v2.1-1 in debbuildopts but that doesn't include
> the changelog entry for 2.1-1 in the changes file.

I have wondered why "dpkg-genchanges" takes the "-v" option the way
it does; which is to take the changelog entries for changes _after_
the specified version --- which must exist.

This makes it difficult to include multiple changelog entries in a NEW
upload. 

One suggestion I found (I think in Neil William's sponsoring
requirements write-up) was to use an empty argument for "-v" but I
couldn't get that to work.

Any suggestions?

Regards,

Kapil.
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