Comment 5 for bug 768640

On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 17:38 +0000, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Ah, thanks for the clarification. I guess the current default makes
> sense in that we encourage folks to submit changes to Debian first.
> Maybe all we really need is an update to merge-upstream's --help docs.
> Here's some suggested text for the middle two paragraphs:
>
> "If the package has a debian/watch file, merge-upstream will look for a
> new upstream source at the specified url, using uscan(1). If the new
> upstream version number cannot be automatically determined, or if you
> want to specify a different upstream version, use the --version option.
>
> The distroseries shown in the top changelog entry will be used as the
> default distroseries for the new changelog entry. You can override this
> with the --distribution option. The distroseries is used to guess the
> version number suffix for the new changelog entry."
>
> Does that help?
Yeah, I think that would be a useful improvement; let's at least make
that change.

It would be nice if we could still fix the default distribution to be
correct in more cases. Or perhaps we could at least suggest
--distribution to the user if we make a guess?

Cheers,

Jelmer