Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> You don't need the tags ("Date:", "Package:", "Version:", and
> "Description:"). It should be formatted something like this:
> [...]
Ian Jackson, would you care to take over dchanges, and implement this?
> [...]
> abc - children's alphabet tutor
> def - "defend", the game
> ghigragleflaggor - the program of the same name
>
> Why would these packages, which obviously have nothing to do with each
> other, be announced in the same announcement? I'd think they would be
> announce separately.
They pobably would be, but dchanges(1) wouldn't know, or care, about that.
I was trying to illustrate file format, not file content.
> .
> This is Changelog info from a pre-prepared file.
> It was included literally, except for having blank lines coerced.
> .
> * This might be a description of some change
> .
> * This might be a very long anc verbose description of some
> change which the package maintainer goes on and on about.
> .
> * This might be the description of another change.
> .
>
> What do these dots represent?
Blank lines -- exactly like the package descriptions in dpkg control files,
and as explained in the current dchanges(1) man page.
