Comment 25 for bug 250820
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| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote Re: [Bug 250820] Re: -changes emails could be easier to read | #25 |
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 02:32:48PM -0000, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> The debian changelog format does not specify any additional fields
> besides a structured list of changes. The debian .changes format does
> and is also an rfc2822-like format. The example is a mix of both,
> starting with a debian changelog and appending some extra rfc2822-like
> fields.
The purpose of this suggestion was to replace an email format which is hard
for humans to read (.changes files) with one which is easy for humans to
read (changelog entries), since emails are primarily for humans to read.
There should be more convenient ways of accessing this data programmatically
(perhaps launchpadlib?), but if not, perhaps it would be easiest if
Launchpad simply attached a copy of the .changes file to the message.
Then, scripts could continue to parse that, while humans could ignore it and
read the content.
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- mdz