Workflow of release by catkin_{generate_changelog, prepare_release}

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First of all, releasing packages are getting easier and easier and even kind of fun. Thanks for the hard work guys!

I'm a bit confused with the steps of first-time release of a package (that I follow wiki). There the steps go as:

$ cd %HOME_PKG_TOBE_RELEASED%
$ catkin_generate_changelog

Here CHANGELOG.rst files are generated in each package. I modify these files to replace the lines that have Forthcoming with the appropriate version number (and date if I wish). Then,

$ catkin_prepare_release

which bumps version of all packages inside the directory. Problem occurs next; the command complains that there aren't changelog entry corresponding to the new version.

Here I end up manually creating tag and push to the upstream repository, and move to the next steps in the tutorial.

Am I doing something wrong, or is it worth opening an enhancement request?