UBUNTU: [Packaging] update helper scripts

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1786013Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan.alsawaf@canonical.com>

debian/scripts/helpers/close

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 
 usage() {
 	cat << EOF
-Usage: ${P:-$(basename "$0")} [-h|--help] [-d|--dry-run] [-c|--include-config] [-s|--skip-master]
+Usage: ${P:-$(basename "$0")} [-h|--help] [-d|--dry-run] [-c|--include-config] [-s|--skip-master] [-b BASE_VERSION]
 
 Prepare the closing release commit. Include all the changelog entries
 in the current release, including the changes from the base
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ Optional arguments:
   -c, --include-config  Include config changes in the closing commit.
   -s, --skip-master     Skip master kernel changelog entries (used when
                         bootstraping new kernels).
+  -b BASE_VERSION       For derivatives and backports, force the changelog
+                        entries to have the base version as provided (used
+                        when changing the base derivative version of a
+                        backport).
   -h, --help            Show this help message and exit.
 
 Examples:
@@ -30,6 +34,7 @@ EOF
 dry_run=0
 commit_configs=0
 skip_master_entries=0
+base_version=
 while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
 	case "$1" in
 		-h|--help)
@@ -45,6 +50,10 @@ while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
 		-s|--skip-master)
 			skip_master_entries=1
 			;;
+		-b)
+			shift
+			base_version="$1"
+			;;
 		*)
 			usage
 			exit 1
@@ -109,7 +118,9 @@ if [ "$branch" != 'master' ]; then
 	# skip that step and fetch the entries directly from the master kernel.
 	version=$(dpkg-parsechangelog -l"$DEBIAN/changelog" -SVersion)
 	if [[ $version == *~* ]]; then
-		base_version=$(dpkg-parsechangelog -l"$DEBIAN/changelog" -SVersion -c1 -o1)
+		if [ -z "${base_version}" ]; then
+			base_version=$(dpkg-parsechangelog -l"$DEBIAN/changelog" -SVersion -c1 -o1)
+		fi
 		base_changelog="${DEBIAN%-*}/changelog"
 		if [ -f "$base_changelog" ] && [ "$DEBIAN" != "${DEBIAN%-*}" ]; then
 			run ./debian/scripts/misc/insert-ubuntu-changes "$DEBIAN/changelog" "${base_version%%~*}" "${version%%~*}" "$base_changelog"