Re: generating changelog files
In article <[🔎] 14581.8271.813936.747084@gargle.gargle.HOWL> you wrote:
>
> I briefly looked at the man page for cvs-buildpackage and it does a lot
> of stuff! The only thing is that I am not interested in building debian
> packages but maybe in building source tarballs. Can cvs-buildpackage
> build source tarballs and manage the changelog generation ?
Well, I've gone at this a little differently. debs are just archives.
'ar x' will split a deb to the source tarball and some control files.
But learning how to make a deb would be overkill for what you want.
> What perl scripts were you talking about ?
Yow. I assumed these were perl but they're shell scripts --
cvs-inject, cvs-co-upgrade and so on. Manoj is a glutton for
punishment.
> A while back, I read on this list about some debian package(s) (wasn't
> cvs-buildpackage) that helped in generating and managing changelog
> files. But I can't recall the name of the package or track down the
> thread in the list archives.
I've heard complaints about the mailing list search. -user and -devel
are archived by dejanews as linux.debian.* . You might have more
luck with your search there.
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