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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 788349] [NEW] Auto supply -v<last ubuntu version> for bzr bd -S?

On Wed, 25 May 2011 21:26:00 -0000, Barry Warsaw <email address hidden> wrote:
> Of course, it would be nice if bzr bd could do this for you, so you
> don't have to remember to do it, and so that you can't mess it up. I
> *think* bzr should be able to figure out the last Ubuntu version by
> looking at the tags. If the last version was not an Ubuntu version,
> then it should be possible to automatically supply -v to dpkg-
> buildsource, which forwards it to dpkg-genchanges.

Hi,

It's not possible for bzr-builddeb to reliably detect this. Check out
the --package-merge option. Try using this when you are building the
package in the situation you describe.

Thanks,

James