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

[Norbert Preining]

On Di, 15 Mai 2012, James McCoy wrote:
> 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

Disagreed. 

> stanza or preparing the changelog for release.  "dch -r" will update the
> footer appropriately.

If I make intermediate builds for testing that are not properly
released and never intended to be uploaded, I still want to know when
I didn the last change.

> > 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.

Ahhhh.

> > 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.

Yes, done that.

You can close the bug, or write a better description in NEWS and then
close the bug. Whatever you prefer.

Best wishes

Norbert
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