Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.16.8
Severity: wishlist
Dear Dpkg-Maintainers,
it would be nice if dpkg-parsechangelog would support gzip-compressed
changelogs as part of every binary package.
* What led up to the situation?
I wanted to parse a changelog as installed by a package into /usr/share/doc/
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
$ dpkg-parsechangelog --from 4.6.2-5 --to 4.6.3-1
-l/usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/changelog.Debian.gz
[Got binary garbage and tons of parser warnings.]
* What outcome did you expect instead?
The same as the one which finally worked:
$ zcat /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/changelog.Debian.gz | dpkg-parsechangelog --from
4.6.2-5 --to 4.6.3-1 -l-
Maybe an option -p<package> would helpful here, too, so that the
commands above would look like this:
$ dpkg-parsechangelog --from 4.6.2-5 --to 4.6.3-1 -pgcc-4.6
TIA!
As a workaround it would already help to document in
dpkg-parsechangelog(1) that dpkg-parsechangelog can read from STDIN if
the option "-l-" is given (as "-l/dev/stdin" and "-l<(zcat
changelog.Debian.gz)" both did not work).
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