disable pycentral backwards compatibility by default

CHANGELOG.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2010-06-19 Do not workaround Debian Bug #548392 by default.
 
+2010-06-19 By default, do not attempt to migrate old stdeb based
+           packages that used pycentral.
+
 = Release 0.6 (2010-06-18) =
 
 2010-06-18 Do not die if sources.list does not contain deb-src

README.rst

@@ -441,9 +441,9 @@ To pass these commands to sdist_dsc when calling bdist_deb, do this::
   --remove-expanded-source-dir (-r)    remove the expanded source directory
   --ignore-install-requires (-i)       ignore the requirements from
                                        requires.txt in the egg-info directory
-  --pycentral-backwards-compatibility  If True (currently the default), enable
-                                       migration from old stdeb that used
-                                       pycentral
+  --pycentral-backwards-compatibility  If True, enable migration from old
+                                       stdeb that used pycentral.
+                                       (Default=False).
   --workaround-548392                  If True, limit binary package to single
                                        Python version, working around Debian
                                        bug 548392 of debhelper.

RELEASE_NOTES.txt

@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ makes no effort to workaround this bug, and thus "XS-Python-Version:
 all". If you are using stdeb on an older version of Debian/Ubuntu with
 a buggy version of debhelper, use "--workaround-548392=True".
 
+Remove the default attempt to migrate old stdeb based packages that
+used pycentral. (If you still have old stdeb based packages, use
+"--pycentral-backwards-compatibility=True".
+
 Release 0.6.0
 =============
 

stdeb/command/common.py

@@ -74,8 +74,7 @@ def str_to_bool(mystr):
             self.force_buildsystem = True
 
         if self.pycentral_backwards_compatibility is None:
-            self.pycentral_backwards_compatibility=True
-             # emit future change warnging?
+            self.pycentral_backwards_compatibility=False
 
         if self.guess_conflicts_provides_replaces is None:
             # the default

stdeb/util.py

@@ -66,8 +66,7 @@ def check_call(*popenargs, **kwargs):
     ('ignore-install-requires', 'i',
      'ignore the requirements from requires.txt in the egg-info directory'),
     ('pycentral-backwards-compatibility=',None,
-     'If True (currently the default), enable migration from old stdeb '
-     'that used pycentral'),
+     'If True, enable migration from old stdeb that used pycentral. (Default=False).'),
     ('workaround-548392=',None,
      'If True, limit binary package to single Python version, '
      'working around Debian bug 548392 of debhelper. (Default=False).'),