Whenever I run submittodebian, I wind up having to manually edit my debdiff to filter out the change from update-maintainer. I'm very paranoid about this, because I don't want Debian maintainers to ever get the impression that I'm proposing that Ubuntu take over maintenance of the package. This is a lot of manual work each time that could be automated.
I would like submittodebian to intelligently filter this change out of the debdiffs it generates, either by creating temporary copies of debian/control* with the change reverted that it can then diff against, or by cleverly post-processing the diff.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.136
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-3.3-generic 3.1.0
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 9 08:27:03 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-dev-tools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-08 (30 days ago)
This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.142
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ubuntu-dev-tools (0.142) unstable; urgency=low
[ Stefano Rivera ]
* mk-sbuild: Support kmod, when checking for overlayfs availability.
* pbuilder-dist: improve bash_completion for *.dsc files. Thanks Maarten
Bezemer. (Closes: #670924, LP: #770529)
* check-mir, check-symbols, grep-merges, pbuilder-
setup-
Do enough argument parsing to handle --help (LP: #988009)
* dgetlp: Require a UTF-8 locale, or it'll crash when displaying errors
(LP: #979117)
* pbuilder-dist: Don't try to enable -updates for Debian testing
(LP: #993006)
* pbuilder-dist, pull-debian-source, pull-lp-source, requestsync,
reverse-
Handle outdated distro-info data. Fall back to sane defaults where
possible. (Closes: #673957)
* backportpackage: Avoid uploading orig tarballs if they are already present
in the destination PPA (LP: #691897)
* Allow mk-sbuild to be run by root if a configuration file exists
(LP: #888736)
* backportpackage: Allow unsigned backports (LP: #992739)
* update-maintainer: Add a function to restore the original maintainer.
- Update sponsor-patch to use the new API resulting from this change
(LP: #1002999)
* submittodebian: Revert Ubuntu Maintainer mangling, and re-build the source
package before diffing. (LP: #902233)
[ Evan Broder ]
* backportpackage: Add -c, --close flag to include a changelog closer.
* backportpackage: Switch to ~ubuntu12.
instead of ~precise1, to make our version numbers more future-proof.
* backportpackage: Pass -v to debuild with last published version
number. This matches the way backports have traditionally been
generated by archive admins.
-- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Mon, 28 May 2012 23:35:52 +0100