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Karel Wintersky
Karel Wintersky

Reputation: 71

DEBChange (DCH), fixing the undocumented behaviour

Use dpkg packet assembly on a project..

dch -v 1.2.3

The changelog file changed as expected:

package (1.2.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium                

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 -- Maintainer <[email protected]>  Fri, 08 Nov 2019 20:11:21 +0300

Then I use:

dch --release

The changelog reports the following:

package (1.2.3) bionic; urgency=medium 
...

instead of the expected:

package (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=medium 
...

as described in man dch.

Please advise..

P.S. using Mint OS.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 667

Answers (1)

tripleee
tripleee

Reputation: 189337

The upstream Debian package devscripts behaves exactly as per the documentation. The problem is that you are using an Ubuntu-derived OS which has made some changes without updating the documentation.

This is a known bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devscripts/+bug/1655717

Maybe you should raise a separate Mint bug because it doesn't look like Ubuntu is going to change this any time soon. Or switch to a platform which is not based on Ubuntu if Mint is not central to your usage scenario.

The dch documentation shows how to work around this.

dch --release --distribution unstable

Upvotes: 2

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