On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > One nice thing about using standard changelog format is that if someone > > wants to they could add another format, specialised for news > > information, and another parser in /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/. Of > > course apt-listchanges does its own parsing, so anyone who does that > > would probably be well served by redesigning the parser interface to > > something that apt-listchanges can use. Anyway, it's nice to keep that > > option open. > > I filed a wishlist bug about this quite a long time ago (#95579), but got no > response.
Hmm, maybe a library(perl) that gives all this information would be useful. Modifying the text output of dpkg-parsechangelog is difficult, as several programs parse it's output.