On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 00:56 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:37 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:01 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: [...] > > which is in a block of code that's only called if dch was called with > > --closes. > > Ah, now that makes sense. I was trying to work out why this bug had not > been noticed before. I've been working with some unreleased upstream > packages and --closes in each case is an ITP. > > > I can reproduce the above error, but only by using a changelog for a > > package that doesn't exist in the Debian archive and passing --closes. > > However, I can reproduce it with any package whether in Debian or not as > long as --closes is used. Try with 'dch -i --closes 123456'.
That gives me a correctly formatted changelog entry for the initial release of eazel-engine (#123456 /is/ one of my usual test cases :-) [...] > Interestingly, this works: > $ dch -a -p wnpp --closes 477218 > > (for estron, the correct package for that ITP). > > tagpending needs to be told about wnpp/ITP bugs but I've never had to > tell dch about that before. It seems that it is the error checking that > has been disabled / replaced. The most recent change to that area of code was the switch from using HTML scraping to the BTS's SOAP interface. That was a couple of months ago, in 2.10.17. [...] > dch only appears to work for 'dch -a --closes number' where that number > *is* the correct bug number and applies to that package. i.e. all error > checking has apparently been replaced by this perl error, which isn't > exactly helpful when trying to work out what has gone wrong. ;-) At least in my tests, it also works fine when the package in question has at least one open bug, which would explain why using "-p wnpp" works. Could you please try http://alioth.debian.org/~adam-guest/debchange.pl and let me know if that resolves the issue for you? Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
