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

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🦋 Lintian::P...::Changelog(3) 🦋

okay bestie, welcome to the Debian Package Checker corner of the world, aka the manual page for Lintian::P...::Changelog(3). yes the name is giving abbreviate-till-it-hurts but we move 💅

✨ NAME ✨

Lintian::Processable::Source::Changelog — the way you get at all that collected changelog data, no cap 📜

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Lintian::Processable;

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. one line and you're in 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, Lintian::Processable::Source::Changelog hands you an interface to changelog data. it's the little doorway between you and the changelog, and honestly? iconic behavior 🌸

✨ INSTANCE METHODS ✨

both of these are literally on the object, they're not class methods, they're your methods once you got one 🎀

changelog_item

changelog

  • returns the changelog of the source package as a Parse::DebianChangelog object — yes a whole real object, we love a return type that ate 💖
  • and if the changelog cannot be resolved safely? it gives you an empty object instead. no drama, no crash, just an empty lil guy. it's giving emotional availability 😌
lowkey important: it's "cannot be resolved safely" for a reason — it will not go digging somewhere sketchy and hand you garbage. an empty object means no reliable answer, not "here's a guess". iykyk 🧚

✨ AUTHOR ✨

originally written by Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> for Lintian. ty for your service, king 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

and that's the whole page bestie, we're done 🎀 this version of Lintian::P...::Changelog(3) came from Lintian v2.139.0ubuntu2, dated 2026-10-08. mwah, go read a changelog 💜

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