Bug#703633: debchange --bpo writes bpo60 in debian/changelog as version in wheezy

[Thomas Goirand]

On 03/31/2013 06:04 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sonntag, 31. März 2013, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> OTOH I am pretty sure that the majority of people using wheezy's "dch
>> --bpo" functionality will be generating backports for wheezy itself
>> and not for oldstable.
> 
> to me thats what I'd call "obvious behaviour" and "obvisouly sane behaviour". 
> If it wouldn't wheezy's (or actually,any releases) dch would break, once 
> oldstable (and therefore it's backports suite) will be moved to archive.d.o, 
> which will eventually happen.
> 
> Also it seems more logical to create backports for the suite one is running, 
> and not an outdated suite.
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 	Holger

Unless someone opposes to my view, I think we have a majority to agree
that dch --bpo should use wheezy, and that this really is a bug. So I
will open a new bug to ask the release team if they would accept such a
change.

Cheers,

Thomas