dch -r should detect when update-maintainer needs to be run
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Distributed Development |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
devscripts (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When making first modifications to a package on the UDD branch, I frequently get caught out by not having run 'update-maintainer' until I get to the point of running 'bzr bd -S'. I frequently don't build the source package until *after* I've finished developing and have already pushed the branch to launchpad... complete with a release tag on the wrong revision, because I then have to update the branch again with the result of update-maintainer.
Catching update-maintainer at the source building stage isn't a problem for classic workflows, but for UDD, where I'll have already committed the change to bzr, it can be a real pain. I think either 'dch -r' or 'debcommit -r' should catch the fact that update-maintainer hasn't been run yet, and abort with the same error that dpkg-buildpackage outputs.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: devscripts 2.11.0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 18 21:24:43 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: devscripts
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-27 (21 days ago)
Changed in devscripts (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |