[SCM] Git repository for devscripts branch, master, updated. v2.11.7-45-gb3ebe95

Benjamin Drung bdrung at debian.org
Thu May 31 11:08:41 UTC 2012


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit b3ebe9505c80461550aa3bedc4d0b348f82b6be7
Author: Benjamin Drung <bdrung at debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 31 13:07:32 2012 +0200

    debchange: Document the changed --increment behaviour.
    
    Thanks: Micah Gersten

diff --git a/scripts/debchange.1 b/scripts/debchange.1
index 191a144..cecd732 100644
--- a/scripts/debchange.1
+++ b/scripts/debchange.1
@@ -149,7 +149,9 @@ Add a new changelog entry at the end of the current version's entries.
 .TP
 .BR \-\-increment ", " \-i
 Increment either the final component of the Debian release number or,
-if this is a native Debian package, the version number.  This creates
+if this is a native Debian package, the version number.  On Ubuntu,
+this will also change the suffix from buildX to ubuntu1.  Use
+-R, --rebuild for a no change rebuild increment.  This creates
 a new section at the beginning of the changelog with appropriate
 headers and footers.  Also, if this is a new version of a native
 Debian package, the directory name is changed to reflect this.

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