Using -v when merging from Debian

[Scott Kitterman]

Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubunt.com> wrote:

>Am Freitag, den 27.05.2011, 12:01 -0500 schrieb Micah Gersten:
>> This is a friendly reminder that when merging a package from Debian,
>> to use -v when building the source package.  You pass it the last
>> version that was in Ubuntu and it'll include everything after that in
>> the _source.changes file.  This allows all the recorded changes to
>> show up on the -changes mailing list and any LP bugs closed in Debian
>> to be auto-closed.
>
>I forgot to specify the -v parameter several times. I found an
>effective
>way to avoid those mistakes. Before every upload, I check the
>_source.changes file (for example with less) that everything in there
>is ok.

I do this as well it can save you from a multitude of sins.

Scott K