Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > Hello, > > On Fri 19 Oct 2018 at 10:12PM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > >> Aside from the terminalogy of "finalization", which seems to be specific >> to debian-changelog-mode, I'd say that's now a (the?) standard workflow. > > dgit doesn't use it, i.e., it uses unfinalised changelogs. >
Interesting. I guess this is one of those generational things. > > dpkg-buildpackage can build packages that have unfinalised changelogs, > though? I have built unreleased dgit many times. > Ah. I was fooled by the 40+ lines of warnings (really, I just counted), into thinking the build did not succeed. Don't those warnings annoy you when building unreleased dgit? Or do you suppress them somehow? > The advantage is the fact that you can set the distribution for the > upload while still keeping it clear that the upload is not yet > released. The way that debian-changelog-mode does it better reflects > the idea of signing off on an upload. > > Ideally debian-changelog-mode would support both the dch and the > traditional workflows, but I appreciate that would be a lot of work. Yeah, I'd be willing to look at patches, but I doubt I'd find the motivation myself. For one thing, debian-changelog-mode.el is already more than 1800 lines long... d
