Bug#673974: dch --increment does not create new section

[James McCoy]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:40:41PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> dch --increment is documented as
> 
>        --increment, -i
>               Increment either the final component of the Debian release  num‐
>               ber  or, if this is a native Debian package, the version number.
>               This creates a new section at the  beginning  of  the  changelog
>               with  appropriate  headers  and footers.
> 
> This behavior has recently changed:

DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC's default was changed to changelog.  When
it's changelog, then -i and -v just update the existing changelog stanza
if the distribution is UNRELEASED.

I'd consider this desirable behavior and something we should document
better.

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