[ovs-dev] [PATCH] debian: Attempt to keep debian/changelog up-to-date.

[Jesse Gross]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> Invariably we forget to update the version number in debian/changelog as
> we change OVS's own version number.  This is embarrassing.
>
> This commit introduces two different times to automatically update the
> debian/changelog version number: whenever boot.sh runs and whenever
> "make dist" runs.  In the latter case, only the version number in the
> distributed tarball is updated, but that seems OK.
>
> Reported by Joan Cirer <joan at ev0.net> most recently, and by others over
> the last year or so too.
>

We actually have a real changelog in the top level directory that is
updated.  I wonder if it might be better to just change the format to use
the Debian syntax and then copy it over to debian/ when we build packages.

Alternately, if we do use this script I think we should cleanup the base
changelog file in the debian/ directory.  It's a little strange that it
refers to an old, random version.  We could either put in the description of
1.0.0 or just leave it empty.  The script looks fine to me though.
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