Bug#787254: dch insists on trailing space in "Changes: "

[Ian Jackson]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.12.6+deb7u2
Severity: minor

When dch is processing the output of dpkg-parsechangelog, it barfs if
the line introducing the Changes field does not have a trailing space
after the colon.

To reproduce: put the attached script as "dpkg-parsechangelog"
somewhere on your path, and run dch.  For example, in a test repo I
have, the invocation
  dch -v1.1 --distribution unstable 'Commit a forbidden thing'
produces this message:
  dch: fatal error at line 641:
  Don't understand dpkg-parsechangelog output: Changes:

But if at line 27 of my script I add a single trailing space, all is
well.

I don't think this bug is of any immediate practical relevance to most
people, and I can easily work around it.  But it would probably be
worth fixing in case dpkg-source ever changes the output format.

Thanks,
Ian.

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