dep3changelog(1)

dep3changelog1

Generate a changelog entry from a dep3-style patch header

Usage

dep3changelog patch [patch ...] [options] [-- [dch_options]]

Overview

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.

Releases

Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

  1. 7–13

Author

Steve Langasek <[email protected]>

From devscripts 2.25.15+deb13u1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.