Re: parse_changelog modification, dpkg-genchanges refactoring
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog writes ("parse_changelog modification, dpkg-genchanges refactoring"):
> > With Frank, we thought that instead of calling dpkg-parsechangelog in the
> > parse_changelog function, it ought to work in the opposite direction:
> > dpkg-parsechangelog should call parse_changelog() to do its job. So
> > I implemented that and fixed the various scripts that called
> > parse_changelog.
>
> I don't see why that's an improvement but it doesn't seem harmful. I
> trust you'll maintain the interface to parsechangelog/debian which
> allows other changelog formats to be substituted.
We have one fork/exec less everywhere where we retrieve info from the
changelog.
The interface stays but it has been extended, parsers have to support more
options to select which changelog entries are displayed.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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