dch -r's Ubuntu behavior not documented in man page

NB: I actually find the change really counter-intuitive as I often use dch from Ubuntu to change Debian packages; I don't have anything to offer as a replacement behavior, I guess the change was to optimized for the most common case and the implementor thought that people could always force the releas with --release.

Should the change still be made to document the Ubuntu behavior?

The documentation and the behavior should be consistent. So, if the behavior has been changed, the documentation should change as well.

So the questions are:
 * is the behavior of `dch -r` still changed (as described by the OP)
 * is the documentation still not updated?

If both answers are yes, this report should stay open and get fixed soon, as this is already an old issue...

Note: If someone delivers the updates in the documentation, I am willing to send it upstream and get it updated,

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Behavior in vivid is still to use the current distribution rather than look at the previous changelog entry [1] and the manual is still inconsistent with that [2]

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/vivid/devscripts/vivid/view/head:/scripts/debchange.pl#L1396
[2] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/vivid/devscripts/vivid/view/head:/scripts/debchange.1#L176

Can this be documented please? It led me to upload something to the wrong distribution on a PPA and needed to reupload with a higher version because of that.

Also inconsistent in the version in development: [1][2].

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/wily/devscripts/wily/view/head:/scripts/debchange.pl#L1369
[2] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/wily/devscripts/wily/view/head:/scripts/debchange.1#L176