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DEP3CHANGELOG(1)                       General Commands Manual                      DEP3CHANGELOG(1)

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

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
              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)

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