git-debrebase: Use debchange for new-upstream changelog entry

Closes: #905888.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/git-debrebase b/git-debrebase
index 4756748..3d1f2a8 100755
--- a/git-debrebase
+++ b/git-debrebase
@@ -2170,30 +2170,39 @@ sub cmd_new_upstream () {
  "[git-debrebase anchor: new upstream $new_upstream_version, merge]",
             ];
 
-	my $clogsignoff = cmdoutput qw(git show),
-	    '--pretty=format:%an <%ae>  %aD',
-	    $new_bw;
-
 	# Now we have to add a changelog stanza so the Debian version
-	# is right.
-	die if unlink "debian";
-	die $! unless $!==ENOENT or $!==ENOTEMPTY;
-	unlink "debian/changelog" or $!==ENOENT or die $!;
-        mkdir "debian" or die $!;
-	open CN, ">", "debian/changelog" or die $!;
-	my $oldclog = git_cat_file ":debian/changelog";
-	$oldclog =~ m/^($package_re) \(\S+\) / or
-	    fail "cannot parse old changelog to get package name";
-	my $p = $1;
-	print CN <<END, $oldclog or die $!;
-$p ($new_version) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
-
-  * Update to new upstream version $new_upstream_version.
-
- -- $clogsignoff
-
-END
-	close CN or die $!;
+	# is right.  We use debchange to do this.  Invoking debchange
+	# here is a bit fiddly because it has a lot of optional
+	# exciting behaviours, some of which will break stuff, and
+	# some of which won't work in a playtree.
+
+	# Make debchange use git's idea of the user's identity.
+	# That way, if the user never uses debchange et al, configuring
+	# git is enough.
+	my $usetup = sub {
+	    my ($e, $k) = @_;
+	    my $v = cfg $k, 1;
+	    defined $v or return;
+	    $ENV{$e} = $v;
+	};
+	$usetup->('DEBEMAIL',    'user.email');
+	$usetup->('DEBFULLNAME', 'user.name');
+
+sleep 2;
+
+	my @dch = (qw(debchange
+		      --allow-lower-version .*
+		      --no-auto-nmu
+		      --preserve
+		      --vendor=Unknown-Vendor
+		      --changelog debian/changelog
+		      --check-dirname-level 0
+		      --release-heuristic=changelog
+		      -v), $new_version,
+		   "Update to new upstream version $new_upstream_version.");
+
+	runcmd @git, qw(checkout -q debian/changelog);
+	runcmd @dch;
 	runcmd @git, qw(update-index --add --replace), 'debian/changelog';
 
 	# Now we have the final new breakwater branch in the index