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🏷️ NAME

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

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
📄 Single patch changelog	dep3changelog patch.diff	Generate a changelog entry from a single DEP3 patch header
📚 Multiple patches	dep3changelog patch1.diff patch2.diff	Process multiple patches at once, each gets its own entry
⚙️ Custom dch options	dep3changelog patch.diff -- -l "low"	Pass additional options to debchange (e.g., urgency, distribution)
🔍 Show help	dep3changelog -h	Display help message and exit

📋 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 — 📧 Environment variables for the email address.
• DEBFULLNAME, NAME — 👤 Environment variables for the full name.
• See the description above for how these variables are used.

👤 AUTHOR

Steve Langasek <vorlon AT debian.org>

📚 SEE ALSO

debchange(1)