Hi, On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > man dpkg-genchanges says the following about the -v option: > > -vversion > Causes changelog information from all versions strictly later > than version to be used. > > Unfortunately that is not true. dpkg-genchanges looks for the exact > version string and if not found includes *all* changelog entries into > the changes files. This is highly inconvenient for backports where it is > often that the newer uploads don't carry along the older changelog entry > but people would want to have all changes since the last upload > included. > > It would be really swift if dpkg-genchanges could work like advertised. :)
It does, at least here. Can you show me where it doesn't work as expected? Can you verify with dpkg-dev 1.15.6 from experimental too? It gives clear warning even: $ LANG=C dpkg-genchanges -v1.15.4.12 parsechangelog/debian: warning: 'since' option specifies non-existing version parsechangelog/debian: warning: use newest entry that is smaller than the one specified [...] And there I get entries only above "1.15.4.12" (>= 1.15.5). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
