Pretty please use debcommit

[Harald Sitter]

I know I am annoying, but could every uploader please use debcomit -R -r to do 
a release commit?

It is kind of a PITA to trace a file movement among .install files if the log 
does show no indication as to when what version was uplaoded to the archives.

When using -r -R debcommit will try to compose a sensible commit message, 
which in case of no changes would be 
"releasing 1:1.1.1-0ubuntu1"
but even more importantly it adds a tag to that commit making it more 
recognizable.

In bzr qlog this looks like 
http://people.ubuntu.com/~apachelogger/screenshots/snapshot001.png which is of 
course super useful.

Regular commiters should also prefer debcommit over bzr's, more than pitiful 
attemts to make a sensible commit msg out of the changelog, or manual writing. 
In most cases debcommit will properly detect which entries are new and create 
a somewhat sensible and well formated commit message from that.

So in general: please "man debcommit", and use when appropriate.

Thanks
-- 
Harald Sitter
Kubuntu Core Developer
http://www.kubuntu.org
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