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saintedlama
saintedlama

Reputation: 6898

Validate debian changelog

In the project I'm in we build debian packages to distribute our software. The changelog is edited by a couple of committers and tends to be invalid.

Is there a way to check if the changelog is valid without the need to run a full "debuild"?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1136

Answers (1)

Flexo - Save the data dump
Flexo - Save the data dump

Reputation: 88711

dch is a tool for editing changelogs. It will complain if the changelog is invalid I believe. (You could also encourage the other committers to use this to avoid the problem in the first place!)

dpkg-source reads the changelog file when building the source. That would make quite a reasonable "sanity" check, but doesn't do a full build.

Upvotes: 4

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