Dpkg::Changelog::Debian(3perl) libdpkg-perl Dpkg::Changelog::Debian(3perl)
NAME
Dpkg::Changelog::Debian - parse Debian changelogs
DESCRIPTION
This class represents a Debian changelog file as an array of changelog
entries (Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian). It implements the generic
interface Dpkg::Changelog. Only methods specific to this implementation
are described below, the rest are inherited.
Dpkg::Changelog::Debian parses Debian changelogs as described in
deb-changelog(5).
The parser tries to ignore most cruft like # or /* */ style comments,
RCS keywords, Vim modelines, Emacs local variables and stuff from older
changelogs with other formats at the end of the file. NOTE: most of
these are ignored silently currently, there is no parser error issued
for them. This should become configurable in the future.
METHODS
$count = $c->parse($fh, $description)
Read the filehandle and parse a Debian changelog in it, to store the
entries as an array of Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian objects. Any
previous entries in the object are reset before parsing new data.
Returns the number of changelog entries that have been parsed with
success.
CHANGES
Version 1.00 (dpkg 1.15.6)
Mark the module as public.
SEE ALSO
Dpkg::Changelog.
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