Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Sat Jul 27 03:40:17 BST 2019


On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:28:38 -0300, intrigeri wrote:

> 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)

In dpt-new-upstream we're using Dpkg::Changelog::Debian from
libdpkg-perl, which might help here as well.
 
Cheers,
gregor

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