Lintian::Processable::Changelog

    use Lintian::Processable;
    my $processable = Lintian::Processable::Binary->new;

Lintian::Processable::Changelog provides an interface to changelog data.

changelog

For binary:

Returns the changelog of the binary package as a Parse::DebianChangelog object, or undef if the changelog doesn't exist. The changelog-file collection script must have been run to create the changelog file, which this method expects to find in changelog.

Needs-Info requirements for using changelog: changelog-file

For source:

Returns the changelog of the source package as a Parse::DebianChangelog object, or "undef" if the changelog cannot be resolved safely.

saved_changelog

Returns the cached changelog information.

Originally written by Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> for Lintian.

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