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  1. Bug #1655717
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1655717

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :

Additionally as blackboxsw pointed out to me recently the man page says it will default to the previous value, which actually makes sense.

| --release, -r
| Finalize the changelog for a release. Update the changelog
| timestamp. If the distribution is set to UNRELEASED, change it
| to the distribution from the previous changelog entry (or
| another distribution as specified by --distribution). If there
| are no previous changelog entries and an explicit distribution
| has not been specified, unstable will be used.