NAME

       Dpkg::Changelog::Debian - parse Debian changelogs

DESCRIPTION

       This class represents a Debian changelog file as an array of changelog entries
       (Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian).  It implements the generic interface Dpkg::Changelog.
       Only methods specific to this implementation are described below, the rest are inherited.

       Dpkg::Changelog::Debian parses Debian changelogs as described in deb-changelog(5).

       The parser tries to ignore most cruft like # or /* */ style comments, RCS keywords, Vim
       modelines, Emacs local variables and stuff from older changelogs with other formats at the
       end of the file.  NOTE: most of these are ignored silently currently, there is no parser
       error issued for them. This should become configurable in the future.

METHODS

       $count = $c->parse($fh, $description)
           Read the filehandle and parse a Debian changelog in it, to store the entries as an
           array of Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian objects.  Any previous entries in the object
           are reset before parsing new data.

           Returns the number of changelog entries that have been parsed with success.

CHANGES

   Version 1.00 (dpkg 1.15.6)
       Mark the module as public.

SEE ALSO

       Dpkg::Changelog.