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| DEP3CHANGELOG(1) |
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DEP3CHANGELOG(1) |
NAME¶
dep3changelog - generate a changelog entry from a DEP3-style patch header
SYNOPSIS¶
dep3changelog patch [patch ...] [options] [--
[dch_options]]
DESCRIPTION¶
dep3changelog extracts the DEP3 patch headers from the given patch
files and builds a changelog entry for each patch. If the patch author differs
from the one detected from the DEBEMAIL, NAME, DEBEMAIL,
or EMAIL environment variables, “Thanks to author
<email>” is added to the changelog entry for that patch.
Any bug-debian or bug-ubuntu fields are added as
“Closes” to the changelog entry. The generated changelog entries
are passed to debchange as an argument along with the given
dch_options.
OPTIONS¶
- --help, -h
- Display a help message and exit successfully.
- --version
- Display version and copyright information and exit successfully.
ENVIRONMENT¶
- DEBEMAIL, EMAIL, DEBFULLNAME, NAME
- See the above description of the use of these environment variables.
AUTHOR¶
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
