Bug#672973: devscripts: stopped updating the time stamps of the changelog

[James McCoy]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:23:36PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> in former times a 
> 	dch -a -c .../path/to/changelog
> did indeed update the name and date footer. Now it doesn't anymore.

Because that's just noise except in the case of creating a new changelog
stanza or preparing the changelog for release.  "dch -r" will update the
footer appropriately.

> Why has this change happened? I don't see any NEWS item concerning this?
> The only NEWS item is about release heuristic if nothing is given, but
> I definitely pass options onto dch.

The changelog heuristic automatically enables --mainttrailer/-t.

> Please restore the old behaviour, or at least explain how to fix it,
> because I couldn't find it. dch -t didn't work either.

Use --nomainttrailer or put DEBCHANGE_MAINTTRAILER=no in your
configuration file.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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