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

Guillem Jover guillem at debian.org
Tue Nov 5 10:39:35 GMT 2019


Hi!

On Sat, 2019-11-02 at 16:31:24 +0100, intrigeri wrote:
> Guillem Jover:
> > On Sat, 2019-07-27 at 12:20:00 -0300, intrigeri wrote:
> >> Oh, this is very interesting, thanks! I had taken a look at that
> >> module, but from the documentation I understood it only gives us "the
> >> number of changelog entries that have been parsed with success", so
> >> I had discarded this option.
> 
> > If the documantion was not clear, I'd be happy to try to improve it so
> > that other people do not get this impression too. Could you cover a bit
> > what lead you to that conclusion?
> 
> Back then I had read only `perldoc Dpkg::Changelog::Debian`, which
> documents one method:
> 
>     $c->parse($fh, $description)
>         Read the filehandle and parse a Debian changelog in it. The data in
>         the object is reset before parsing new data.
> 
>         Returns the number of changelog entries that have been parsed with
>         success.
> 
> I understood only later that "See also: Dpkg::Changelog" was not
> optional :)

Ah! Thanks for the info. How about the following clarification then? :)

Regards,
Guillem
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