From: Raphael Hertzog Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:13:18 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Custom changelog parsers must be updated for lenny+1 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c5184719ac4bfe0505839fad74d707e8c5974190;p=dpkg Custom changelog parsers must be updated for lenny+1 --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 4aa496c2..06274c19 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ * README.feature-removal-schedule: Deprecate support of substvars in dpkg-source and dpkg-genchanges. + * README.feature-removal-schedule, README.api: Deprecate support + of custom changelog parsers that understand only the -v option. 2008-01-27 Raphael Hertzog diff --git a/README.api b/README.api index 9eb10dd6..d918df11 100644 --- a/README.api +++ b/README.api @@ -8,3 +8,15 @@ Description: The API provided by these modules is not yet stable, it's only supposed to be used internally by dpkg for now. +What: custom changelog parsers in /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog +Status: stable +Version: 2.0 +Description: + Since dpkg 1.14.16, the set of command-line options that custome + changelog parsers must support has been expanded (see + dpkg-parsechangelog(1)). For compatibility, changelog parsers supporting + only the old options are supported in lenny. In lenny+1, that support + will be dropped. + . + For reference, only the -v option was supported in version 1.0 of this + API. diff --git a/README.feature-removal-schedule b/README.feature-removal-schedule index f3b6cfc9..4d3517ee 100644 --- a/README.feature-removal-schedule +++ b/README.feature-removal-schedule @@ -71,3 +71,16 @@ Why: substvars do not make sense during generation of .dsc and .changes files. This also means that it won't be possible anymore to override the Format field output by dpkg-genchanges. + +What: support of custom changelog parsers understanding only -v +Status: obsolete +When: lenny+1 +Warning: none +Why: + The debian changelog parser has been enhanced. It supports new options + that enable more fine-grained retrieval of information. Those new options + will be used by scripts (like dpkg-genchanges). + . + Custom changelog parsers must be updated to support the new API (see + dpkg-parsechangelog(1) and README.api). +