Package: devscripts Version: 2.8.15 Severity: normal No news is good news -- most Debian packages do not have a debian/NEWS file, and this is not likely to change. So the fact that dch --news fails if debian/NEWS doesn't exist (and even if it's empty) makes it only useful for the minority of packages that do have news, and not useful for the more common case of adding a news file to a package that has none.
This bug has some things in common with #220755, but unlike with that bug, the version and package name for a new news file can be easily determined (by looking at the changelog). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.14.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg-dev 1.13.10 Package building tools for Debian ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii perl 5.8.7-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.4-2 The GNU sed stream editor Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii fakeroot 1.4.1 Gives a fake root environment -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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