Bug#615522: xserver-xorg-video-mach64: apt-listchanges prompts on every upgrade

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Package: xserver-xorg-video-mach64
Version: 6.8.2-5
Tags: patch

Hi KiBi,

For a while, I was wondering why the version numbers in debian/NEWS
for the mach64 keep on increasing such that I get a mail with every
upgrade.  Now I figured it out:

 xserver-xorg-video-mach64 (6.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Drop the useless epoch for the first upload to unstable.

How about this patch?

-- 8< --
Subject: Avoid pointless prompts from apt-listchanges on upgrade

All the NEWS.Debian entries for this package are from its time in
experimental in 2008, when it had an epoch of 1:.  Therefore the
corresponding version numbers are all _later_ than the current
version, and to a tool that doesn't know better, the old news seems to
be new and worth seeing.

So retroactively change the epoch on old news to 0.
---
 debian/NEWS      |    4 ++--
 debian/changelog |    6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index ccac72e..5249086 100644
--- a/debian/NEWS
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-xserver-xorg-video-mach64 (1:6.8.1~git20080301.56a1c9f0-1) experimental; urgency=low
+xserver-xorg-video-mach64 (6.8.1~git20080301.56a1c9f0-1) experimental; urgency=low
 
   * The mach64 submodule isn't included in ati anymore.
     If your /etc/X11/xorg.conf contains Driver "ati", you need to keep
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ xserver-xorg-video-mach64 (1:6.8.1~git20080301.56a1c9f0-1) experimental; urgency
 
  -- Brice Goglin <bgoglin@debian.org>  Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:55:47 +0100
 
-xserver-xorg-video-ati (1:6.7.197-1) unstable; urgency=low
+xserver-xorg-video-ati (6.7.197-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * The X.Org ATI driver supports RandR 1.2 which enables dynamic
     enabling, disabling, resizing, rotating, placing, ... of multiple
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 23b9305..35e6c33 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+xserver-xorg-video-mach64 (6.8.2-5.1) local; urgency=low
+
+  * Drop the epoch from versions in NEWS entries.
+
+ -- Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>  Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:04:01 -0600
+
 xserver-xorg-video-mach64 (6.8.2-5) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Switch to dh:
-- 
1.7.4.1