Lintian::Changelog(3)

💖 Lintian::Changelog(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Debian Package Checker manual, page for Lintian::Changelog. pull up a chair, grab a boba, we're doing this 🧋✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Lintian::Changelog — it takes a literal version string and breaks it down into all its little constituent pieces. it's giving "unpacking your emotional baggage" but make it semver-adjacent 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

use Lintian::Changelog;

my $version = Lintian::Changelog->new;
$version->set('1.2.3-4', undef);

see how easy that was? slay. no cap 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

literally just: a class for parsing literal version strings. that's the whole vibe. it parses version strings. it's a class. iconic behavior honestly ✨

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👑 CLASS METHODS 👑

⭐ new ()

Creates a new Lintian::Changelog object. fresh out the box, brand new, main character energy 🔥

⭐ find_closes

Takes one string as its argument and goes hunting through it for Closes: #123456, #654321 statements — the exact kind that the Debian Archive software supports, iykyk. 🕵️♀️

Returns all the closed bug numbers in an array reference. not one, not a scalar, an array ref. periodt. 💖

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💅 INSTANCE METHODS 💅

🌈 parse (STRING)

Parses STRING as the content of a debian/changelog file. that's it, that's the job. feed it the changelog, it does the thing 🎀

🌈 errors

(no description given, she's mysterious like that 🙈)

🌈 entries

(also no description, also mysterious, also serving looks 💜)

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🍓 AUTHOR 🍓

Originally written by Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> for Lintian. thank you king 👑

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💀 SEE ALSO 💀

• lintian(1)

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and that's a wrap on Lintian v2.139.0ubuntu2, dated 2026-10-08 — this page absolutely ate and left no crumbs, mwah 😘💖✨