DEP3CHANGELOG(1)					      General Commands Manual						  DEP3CHANGELOG(1)

NAME

       dep3changelog - generate a changelog entry from a DEP3-style patch header

SYNOPSIS

       dep3changelog patch [patch ...] [options] [-- [dch_options]]

DESCRIPTION

       dep3changelog  extracts the DEP3 patch headers from the given patch files and builds a changelog entry for each patch.  If the patch author
       differs from the one detected from the DEBEMAIL, NAME, DEBEMAIL, or EMAIL environment variables, "Thanks to author <email>" is added to the
       changelog entry for that patch.	Any bug-debian or bug-ubuntu fields are added as "Closes" to the changelog entry.  The generated changelog
       entries are passed to debchange as an argument along with the given dch_options.

OPTIONS

       --help, -h
	      Display a help message and exit successfully.

       --version
	      Display version and copyright information and exit successfully.

ENVIRONMENT

       DEBEMAIL, EMAIL, DEBFULLNAME, NAME
	      See the above description of the use of these environment variables.

AUTHOR

       Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

SEE ALSO

       debchange(1)

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