Hi,
Guillem Jover wrote:
> > it would be nice if dpkg-parsechangelog would support gzip-compressed
> > changelogs as part of every binary package.
[...]
> The support is mostly all there, it's just an issue with the base parsing
> code which destroys all possibility to leave the rest handle the
> compression transparently. I've started fixing this now, will be
> included in 1.17.x.
Cool! Thanks!
> > 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
>
> I don't think this is a good idea, as long as the changelog files are
> in the normal file system instead of in the dpkg database, because it
> would require hardcoding a series of file paths, which might change
> from distro to distro, also it would need to know if a package is
> native or not, etc.
Granted. Didn't think about the different changelog file name for
native packages.
> > 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).
>
> I've fixed this locally now, which will be included in 1.17.x.
Thanks, too!
Regards, Axel
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