Lintian::P...::Changelog(3)

💖 Lintian::Processable::Changelog 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Debian Package Checker Lintian manpage corner of the internet ✨ this one's all about getting your hands on collected changelog data, and it's short, it's sweet, and it's lowkey essential if you're poking around Lintian's guts. let's go 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Lintian::Processable::Changelog — access to collected changelog data

like, the whole vibe is right there in the name, no cap 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Lintian::Processable;

that's it. that's the whole thing. one line. she's efficient 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Lintian::Processable::Changelog provides an interface to changelog data.

fr fr, that's the deal — it's your lil doorway into the changelog info that Lintian has already scooped up. nothing more, nothing less, main character energy with zero filler 🌈

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🎀 INSTANCE METHODS 🎀

changelog_path

listed right here in the roster, bestie. that's the whole entry — no extra blurb on the page, so I'm not gonna sit here and make one up for you 💀 it's here, it exists, it's part of the family.

changelog

okay so this one actually has lore, and it behaves differently depending on whether you're dealing with a binary or a source package. buckle up 🧚

For binary:

Returns the changelog of the binary package as a Parse::DebianChangelog object, or an empty object if the changelog doesn't exist. 😭

and listen — the changelog-file collection script must have been run to create the changelog file, because this method expects to find it in changelog. no script run, no file, no changelog. periodt.

For source:

Returns the changelog of the source package as a Parse::DebianChangelog object, or an empty object if the changelog cannot be resolved safely.

note the wording there: cannot be resolved safely. not "doesn't exist" — safely. so if the resolution gets sketchy, you're getting an empty object back and that's the tea ☕

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

shoutout to Felix, absolute legend for this one 🫡✨

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• lintian(1)

go read that one next, bestie, it's the whole universe this lil module lives in 🌌

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Lintian v2.114.0ubuntu1.8 · 2026-05-06 — mwah, kisses, go check some changelogs 🎀💅🦋