Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream
intrigeri
intrigeri at debian.org
Fri Jul 26 22:28:38 BST 2019
> - Users of Parse::DebianChangelog could list their minimal
> requirements for a new implementation.
If more folks want to play this game, we should probably move this to
a wiki page, but for the sake of getting things moving simply, here we
go:
dh-make-perl uses this module for three things:
- t/debian-version.t: extracting the latest version of
a changelog file
- copyright_from_changelog:
- extract maintainer and date for each changelog entry
- extract content of the changelog entry, AFAICT only in order to
detect email address changes → seems non-critical to me
but nice to have (and I bet Lintian needs that too anyway)
pkg-perl-tools uses this module only in scripts/missing-upstream (aka.
"dpt missing-upstream"), for extracting, from each changelog entry,
the name and version of the source package.
AFAICT, all this could be reimplemented using dpkg-parsechangelog(1),
either in Parse::DebianChangelog itself or in a brand new module.
Cheers,
--
intrigeri
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