dpkg/man/dpkg-parsechangelog.1

.TH dpkg\-parsechangelog 1 "2007-03-07" "Debian Project" "dpkg utilities"
.SH NAME
dpkg\-parsechangelog \- parse Debian changelog files
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.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dpkg\-parsechangelog
.RI [ options ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dpkg\-parsechangelog
reads and parses the changelog of an unpacked Debian source tree and
outputs the information in it to standard output in a machine-readable
form.
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.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-l changelogfile
Specifies the change log file to read information from. The
default is
.BR debian/changelog .
.TP
.BI \-F changelogformat
Specifies the format of the changelog. By default the format is read
from a special line near the bottom of the changelog or failing that
defaults to the debian standard format.
.TP
.BI \-L libdir
FIXME not used in the source!?
.TP
.BI \-v version
Use changelog information from all versions strictly later than
.IR version .
.TP
.BR \-h ", " \-\-help
Show the usage message and exit.
.TP
.BR \-\-version
Show the version and exit.
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.SH FILES
.TP
.B debian/changelog
The changelog file, used to obtain version-dependent information about
the source package, such as the urgency and distribution of an upload,
the changes made since a particular release, and the source version
number itself.
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.SH AUTHORS
Copyright (C) 1995-1996 Ian Jackson
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Copyright (C) 2000 Wichert Akkerman
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This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or later
for copying conditions. There is NO WARRANTY.