[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Building "unfinalized" packages

[James Westby]

On (08/07/07 16:00), Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 
> While working on the emacs22 package in ubuntu, Michael Olson has
> contributed a patch for python debian, more specifically a new regex for
> the endline in debian/changelog:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-debian/+bug/124732
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8335631/changelog.py.diff
> 
> It allows building of packages, where the last line contains only
> 
> "  --"
> 
> This is of course not accepted for upload to an archive, but normal
> procedure when maintaining packages with emacs's
> debian-changelog-mode. What do you think about the patch?
> 

I'm unsure about it.

It doesn't remove any information needed by builddeb, but it seems
strange none-the-less.

What happens when dpkg-dev gets hold of this? Doesn't it need
the name from the changelog for the Changed-By field?

I'm not sure about eroding changelog.py's strictness. We have
removed errors on trailing unrecognised blocks, but this is
accepting a block without all the information.

I'm not against it, but I would like to know why
debian-changelog-mode does this, can't it just fill the information
in?

Thanks,

James

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