Re: new mailing list: debian-changes@pixar.com

[rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu]

Bruce Perens:
   The debian-changes list is for posting package announcements in the
   changelog format we've already been using for package
   announcements. The changelog format is supported by GNU Emacs, can
   we have a script to generate it for all of us poor VI users,
   please?

Here's a translation of the emacs-lisp algorithm to sh.  I'd probably
recommend calling it 'changelog'.  Because it has a couple embedded
tab characters, I'm including it in compressed uuencoded form:

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-- 
Raul