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.IX Title "Dpkg::Changelog::Debian 3perl"
.TH Dpkg::Changelog::Debian 3perl 2024-01-19 1.22.3 libdpkg-perl
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.SH NAME
Dpkg::Changelog::Debian \- parse Debian changelogs
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "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.
.PP
Dpkg::Changelog::Debian parses Debian changelogs as described in
\&\fBdeb\-changelog\fR\|(5).
.PP
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.
.SH METHODS
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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.
.Sp
Returns the number of changelog entries that have been parsed with success.
.SH CHANGES
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.SS "Version 1.00 (dpkg 1.15.6)"
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Mark the module as public.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
Dpkg::Changelog.