Misuses bzr 2.4's new set_commit_message hook to disable editor prompting for a commit message entirely

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:30:21 -0000, Max Bowsher <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> bzr-builddeb is misusing bzr 2.4's new set_commit_message hook to
> disable editor prompting for a commit message entirely. It really
> shouldn't be doing this.

Was this done for the bug properties to be set?

Is there a way to still do that but to prompt with a suggested message
as it did before?

Thanks,

James

The idea is to replace debcommit which commits with the message from debian/changelog without prompting. This is the behaviour most packagers are used to.

Developers may be used to debcommit not giving them a chance to edit the commit message.

They are NOT used to 'bzr ci' not giving them a chance to edit the commit message, and I would hotly dispute that 'bzr ci' needs to become an exact equivalent to debcommit. And if it does, then it needs an -e/--edit option like debcommit has.

It should be possible to work around this by disabling the bzr-builddeb plugin during commit:

BZR_DISABLE_PLUGINS=builddeb bzr commit