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changes file format



Just out of curiosity, does the following represent a horribly
formatted and human-unreadable package announcement?  Except for
the lack of a Priority field, it passes the dchanges(1) syntax check.

> Date:  Mon Oct 23 18:43:31 MET 1995
> Package:  adduser
> Version:  1.94-2
> Description:  Utilities to add users and groups to the system.
> Changes: 
>  * Makefile: moved symlink creation from postinst/prerm into 
>              the build stage
>  * debian.postinst, debian.prerm: deleted
>  * adduser.8: changed documentation for --home feature
>  * adduser.pl: fixed some file locking races (Bug#1720)
>  * adduser.pl: create home directory with setgid bit when 
>                using usergroups (Bug#1544)
>  * adduser.pl: corrected permissions for copies of /etc/skel
>                files (Bug#1544)
>  * adduser.pl: run /usr/local/sbin/adduser.local if it exists
>                (patch for this feature provided in Bug#1544)
>  * adduser.pl: now always does chown before chmod
>                (Bug#1544, Bug#1720)
>  * adduser.pl: now correctly copies dot files from /etc/skel
>                (Bug#1500)
>  * adduser.pl: now gives informative message when called from
>                a non-root user (Bug#1350)
>  * adduser.pl: enforces that user names are never longer than
>                8 characters (Bug#1241)
>  * adduser.pl: now copies everything below /etc/skel (Bug#1542)
> # File: <name> <size> <md5sum> <destination>
> File: adduser-1.94-2.tar.gz 24448 70fa124c71e5b709019f6729eb8cfe11 source/misc
> File: adduser-1.94-2.deb 13122 847dfb732aa3e994f1917d27ffc20eb3 binary/misc


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