NB: I actually find the change really counter-intuitive as I often use dch from Ubuntu to change Debian packages; I don't have anything to offer as a replacement behavior, I guess the change was to optimized for the most common case and the implementor thought that people could always force the releas with --release.
NB: I actually find the change really counter-intuitive as I often use dch from Ubuntu to change Debian packages; I don't have anything to offer as a replacement behavior, I guess the change was to optimized for the most common case and the implementor thought that people could always force the releas with --release.