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

[Michael Olson]

Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> writes:

> 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?

This isn't a quirk of debian-changelog-mode; it's just a matter of taste
for changes that one is working on collaboratively with others.

I am not actually trying to build a package with an unfinalized entry.
What I am trying to do is tell bzr-buildpackage to "export" the debian/
directory and insert it into a fresh unpack of the .orig.gz tarball,
without building it.  This is useful for making sure that patches apply
correctly, and testing select parts of the debian/rules file.

The reason for my proposed change is that even export without build
fails with the current changelog.py code.  With the change, an
unfinalized block would have an author and date of None, which ought to
be sanity-checked later on in the code anyway.

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