Additionally as blackboxsw pointed out to me recently the man page says it will default to the previous value, which actually makes sense.
| --release, -r | Finalize the changelog for a release. Update the changelog | timestamp. If the distribution is set to UNRELEASED, change it | to the distribution from the previous changelog entry (or | another distribution as specified by --distribution). If there | are no previous changelog entries and an explicit distribution | has not been specified, unstable will be used. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1655717 Title: default distribution hard coded to release that devscripts was built on To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devscripts/+bug/1655717/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
