PLOTCHANGELOG(1)                                              General Commands Manual                                             PLOTCHANGELOG(1)

NAME

       plotchangelog - graph debian changelogs

SYNOPSIS

       plotchangelog [options] changelog ...

DESCRIPTION

       plotchangelog is a tool to aid in visualizing a Debian changelog. The changelogs are graphed with gnuplot(1) , with the X axis of the graph
       denoting time of release and the Y axis denoting the debian version number of the package. Each individual release of the package is repre-
       sented  by a point, and the points are color coded to indicate who released that version of the package. The upstream version number of the
       package can also be labeled on the graph.

       Alternatively, the Y axis can be configured to display the size of the changelog entry for each new version. Or it  can  be  configured  to
       display approximately how many bugs were fixed for each new version.

       Note  that  if  the package is a debian-specific package, the entire package version will be used for the Y axis. This does not always work
       perfectly.

READING THE GRAPH

       The general outline of a package's graph is typically a series of peaks, starting at 1, going up to n, and then returning  abruptly  to  1.
       The higher the peaks, the more releases the maintainer made between new upstream versions of the package. If a package is debian-only, it's
       graph will just grow upwards without ever falling (although a bug in this program may cause it to fall sometimes,  if  the  version  number
       goes from say, 0.9 to say, 0.10 - this is interpreted wrong..)

       If  the graph dips below 1, someone made a NMU of the package and upgraded it to a new upstream version, thus setting the debian version to
       0. NMU's in general appear as fractional points like 1.1, 2.1, etc. A NMU can also be easily detected by looking at the points that  repre-
       sent which maintainer uploaded the package -- a solitary point of a different type than the points before and after it is typically a NMU.

       It's also easy to tell by looking at the points when a package changes maintainers.

OPTIONS

       -l, --linecount
              Instead  of  using the debian version number as the Y axis, use the number of lines in the changelog entry for each version.  Cannot
              be used together with --bugcount.

       -b, --bugcount
              Instead of using the debian version number as the Y axis, use the number of bugs that were closed by each changelog entry. Note that
              this  number  is  obtained  by  searching  for  "#dddd" in the changelog, and so it may be inaccurate.  Cannot be used together with
              --linecount.

       -c, --cumulative
              When used together with either --bugcount or --linecount, graphs the cumulative count rather  than  the  count  in  each  individual
              changelog entry.

       -v, --no-version
              Do not show upstream version labels. Useful if the graph gets too crowded.

       -m, --no-maint
              Do not differentiate between different maintainers of the package.

       -s file, --save=file
              Save the graph to file in postscript format instead of immediately displaying it.

       -u, --urgency
              Use larger points when displaying higher-urgency package uploads.

       --verbose
              Output the gnuplot script that is fed into gnuplot (for debugging purposes).

       -gcommands, --gnuplot=commands
              This  allows  you  to insert gnuplot(1) commands into the gnuplot script that is used to generate the graph. The commands are placed
              after all initialization but before the final plot command. This can be used to override the default look provided by  this  program
              in arbitrary ways. You can also use things like "set terminal png color" to change the output file type, which is useful in conjunc-
              tion with the -s option.

       --help Show a usage summary.

       --version
              Display version, author and copyright information.

       --noconf, --no-conf
              Do not read any configuration files (see below).

       changelog ...
              The changelog files to graph. If multiple files are specified they will all be display on the same graph.  The  files  may  be  com-
              pressed with gzip. Any text in them that is not in Debian changelog format will be ignored.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       The  two  configuration  files  /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are sourced by a shell in that order to set configuration variables.
       The --no-conf option can be used to prevent reading these files.  Environment variable settings are ignored when these configuration  files
       are read.  The currently recognised variables are:

       PLOTCHANGELOG_OPTIONS
              This  is  a  space-separated list of options to always use, for example -l -b.  Do not include -g or --gnuplot among this list as it
              may be ignored; see the next variable instead.

       PLOTCHANGELOG_GNUPLOT
              These are gnuplot commands which will be prepended to any such commands given on the command line.

SEE ALSO

       devscripts.conf(5).

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

DEBIAN                                                           Debian Utilities                                                 PLOTCHANGELOG(1)