DETECT-CHANGELOG-BEHAVIOUR(1)

👑 detect-changelog-behaviour(1) — the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, welcome to the User Commands section, this is detect-changelog-behaviour from the detect-changelog-behaviour command line tool family, and she is iconic 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

detect-changelog-behaviour — detect changelog update behaviour 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

detect-changelog-behaviour [OPTIONS] [DIRECTORY]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically, detect-changelog-behaviour goes snooping through a Debian package's version control configuration (think gbp.conf bestie) plus some heuristics, and it's trying to figure out one (1) question: is the changelog being managed automatically (like, by gbp dch doing its little thing) or is a human updating it manually with their own two hands? 😭

and then she tells you the tea:

• prints true if the changelog should be updated
• prints false if it's managed automatically
• and if she literally cannot figure out the behaviour at all? she exits with a non-zero status 💀 no answer, no vibes, just exit code.

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🎀 positional arguments: 🎀

• DIRECTORY — the directory to check, bestie. defaults to the current directory if you don't say anything. she's lowkey flexible like that ✨

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💅 optional arguments: 💅

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit. your classic "wait what does this do again" button 🫶
• -V, --version — show the program's version number and exit. main character energy, she's announcing herself 📣
• --verbose — be verbose. yes queen, say more words 🌈

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

lintian-brush(1) — go read her too, they're besties fr fr 🍓

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🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org> — thank you for your service, king 👑

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and that's the whole page, no cap! this was detect-changelog-behaviour, sittin' pretty under February 2026 in the <pink>DETECT-CHANGELOG-BEHAVIOUR(1)</pink> era — periodt. 💜