Bug#1077031: dh-make-perl: Create template for debian/changelog with urgency=medium

[Joenio Marques da Costa]

Hi gregor,

Great, thanks for your super-incredible-fast reply here :)

I'm working on it, I will come back ASAP with news.

Cheers,

Le 25/07/2024 à 14:11, gregor herrmann a écrit :
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:02:06 +0200, Joenio Marques da Costa wrote:
> 
>> The "developers-reference - 6.3. Best practices" [2] recommends to set
>> the urgency=medium for all unstable uploads, what is followed by tools
>> such as dh_make but not by dh-make-perl, I think that it can be a source
>> of confusion, having "similar" tools with different behaviors.
> 
> Ok.
>   
>> I think it would be good to change dh-make-perl to create the
>> debian/changelog with urgency=medium and to keep it in conformance with
>> what is suggested as good practice by the developers-reference, even if
>> it has no practical effect I think it's the right thing to do to avoid
>> misunderstandings.
> 
> Fine with me :)
>   
>> I dig into the dh-make-perl source code and I've found the place where
>> it can be changes, it doesn't look a big change but I suppose this
>> change will break some automated tests. I can spend more time on it to
>> update the automated tests related to this change if you the maintainers
>> are ok with that change.
> 
> Indeed:
> 
> % grep -r "urgency=low" t/
> t/dists.t:    unshift @changelog, "libstrange-perl (3.1-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low\n";
> t/dists/Strange-0.1/wanted-debian--refresh/changelog:libstrange-perl (0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
> t/dists/Strange-0.1/wanted-debian--refresh-email/changelog:libstrange-perl (3.1-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
> t/dists/Strange-0.1/wanted-debian--refresh-email/changelog:libstrange-perl (0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
> t/dists/Strange-0.1/wanted-debian--refresh--source-format=3.0_quilt/changelog:libstrange-perl (0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
> t/dists/Strange-0.1/wanted-debian/changelog:libstrange-perl (0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
> t/dists/Strange-2.1/wanted-debian--refresh/changelog:libstrange-perl (2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
> t/dists/Strange-2.1/wanted-debian--refresh-email/changelog:libstrange-perl (3.1-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
> t/dists/Strange-2.1/wanted-debian--refresh-email/changelog:libstrange-perl (2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
> t/dists/Strange-2.1/wanted-debian--refresh--source-format=3.0_quilt/changelog:libstrange-perl (2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
> t/dists/Strange-2.1/wanted-debian/changelog:libstrange-perl (2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
> 
> So yeah, please go ahead :)
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> gregor
> 

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Joenio Marques da Costa
Invited Researcher at Université Gustave Eiffel
Research Software Engineer at LISIS
Developer at CorTexT platform & RISIS Core Facility
http://umr-lisis.fr/membre/joenio