flush repetitive junk out of debian/changelog, and update the prebuild target

in debian/rules to put git commit details into the Debian changelog

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4c503f86ed1fa1b228fcc8e60d124e9fc7d68d5a..e886205eb5fe09669deb80d5a3f1ac57232ccec9 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,140 +4,3 @@ altos (0.5+77+gc57bd7f) unstable; urgency=low
 
  -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:57:19 -0600
 
-altos (0.5+73+g541da6f) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:11:23 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+66+g459ff3d) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:46:58 -0700
-
-altos (0.5+65+g327c643) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:00:31 -0700
-
-altos (0.5+60+gdf42cca) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:21:00 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+53+ga5e94aa) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:01:20 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+51+g3f95a5a) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:48:22 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+49+gae4e131) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:47:56 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+48+g37e6c9a) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:46:39 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+43+g4b0de75) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:15:57 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+39+g45ede4a) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:05:55 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+36+gd42ebf0) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:02:14 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+33+g35c54b3) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:40:06 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+27+g332b056) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:03:55 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+19+gcb4a73f) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:18:15 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+13+g6926c4a) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:48:03 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+11+gc8c5b79) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:42:55 -0600
-
-altos (0.5+9+gb34474c) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:26:00 -0600
-
-altos (0.4+98+g42ab6d5) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:21:23 -0600
-
-altos (0.4+96+g8d4d665) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:11:11 -0600
-
-altos (0.4+94+g21e3dd0) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:07:16 -0600
-
-altos (0.4+92+g4486d91) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:52:57 -0600
-
-altos (0.4+88+gcd5ce66) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * build for Debian from git
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:57:00 -0600
-
-altos (0) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * Initial packaging
-
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:43:43 -0600

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 74cc078d889c5d015b0c4a7c43361e07866adda8..0033fcbedd615d8ca5e2e85daab7a93221917f3a 100755 (executable)
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ PKG_VERSION := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -ne 's/^Version: \(.*\)/\1/p')
 
 # this target invoked by git-buildpackage using a clean hook, see .gbp.conf
 prebuild:
-       dch -v `git describe | tr - +` "build for Debian from git"
+       git-dch --release --new-version=`git describe | tr - +`
        git log > ChangeLog
        git commit ChangeLog debian/changelog \
                -m "update changelogs for Debian build"