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Re: Closing bugs in a changelog



On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:08:00AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Appropriate patches to what?  From what I read, it's "only" text written
> within the changelog entries.  Am I mistaken?

dpkg-genchanges parses the changelog and generates a special Closes: header
into the .changes file.  dinstall only looks at that header.

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%%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % gaia@iki.fi % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%%

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