Re: ChangeLog format

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Andrew Howell writes ("Re: ChangeLog format"):
> I like dchanges for the simple fact that it does the tiresome md5sum
> and size of file work for me, and it's standardised many of the package
> annoucements. If we switch to something else I'd want a similiar tool
> to dchanges. I don't think dchanges output is that unreadable.

To get the md5sum and size of the files I use `md5sum *.{deb,gz}' and
`ls -l *.{deb,gz}'.

What precisely does dchanges take as input ?

I'd be happy to produce a tool to replace dchanges which produces
announcements in my format instead.

Ian.