The prep_doc_mr.py script of the bind9-qa repo needs a way to know that
gitchangelog.py did not produce entries. In the case of release notes,
it dies with "No commits matching given revlist". For changelog entries
it used to warn about "Empty changelog", but did not return non-zero
exit code.
(cherry picked from commit 4d0ae4068f)
When release notes are generated, the text is wrapped and line breaks
are inserted into each paragraph (sourced from the commit message's
body). Prevent line breaks after hyphens, as these are often used for
option names. This makes it possible to easily find the options
afterwards.
(cherry picked from commit 9b0d0c0173)
To reduce the friction when handling the release notes, it is preferable
to have the sections sorted by issue number, rather than merge order.
Fallback to commit subject line if unavailable (e.g. for changelog
entries).
(cherry picked from commit 759948fffe)
Some distributions (notably, debian bookworm) have deprecated the
`python` interpreter in favor of `python3`. Since our scripts are
python3 anyway, use the proper numbered version in shebang to make
scripts easily executable.
(cherry picked from commit 480dcdef9a)
Add an option which can be used to put short commit sha at the end of
each commit subject line in the generated changelog.
(cherry picked from commit c2b23fa2de)
Given our workflow, this could easily lead to misattribution. It's also
not an actionable information and it can be found in the MR / git log
instead.
(cherry picked from commit a8258d1c53)
The project hasn't seen any new development/changes since 2018 and it
seems unlikely we'd be able to get any changes into the upstream. Since
it's isolated into a single file and its task is fairly straighforward,
pull the code into our own repository and maintain it here as needed.
This also makes it easier to make any changes that are specific to our
project.
(cherry picked from commit 63247d8a73)
