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🏷️ NAME

dep3changelog - generate a changelog entry from a DEP3-style patch header

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
📄 Generate changelog entry for a single patch	dep3changelog patch.diff	Extracts DEP3 headers and creates a changelog entry via debchange
📚 Generate entries for multiple patches	dep3changelog patch1.diff patch2.diff	Processes all given patches sequentially
🔧 Pass options to dch	dep3changelog patch.diff -- --release	Anything after -- is forwarded to debchange
❓ Display help	dep3changelog --help	Shows usage and exits

📋 SYNOPSIS

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

📝 DESCRIPTION

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 ℹ️ Display version and copyright information and exit successfully.

🌍 ENVIRONMENT

DEBEMAIL, EMAIL, DEBFULLNAME, NAME — See the above description of the use of these environment variables.

✍️ AUTHOR

Steve Langasek <vorlon AT debian.org>

🔗 SEE ALSO

debchange(1)

🏷️ NAME 🚀 Quick Reference 📋 SYNOPSIS 📝 DESCRIPTION ⚙️ OPTIONS 🌍 ENVIRONMENT ✍️ AUTHOR 🔗 SEE ALSO