editchanges
editchanges is a small shellscript that helps manage the changelog of a Debian host.
Features
- flexible choice of editors, honoring the local user's settings.
- rudimentary locking
makes sure that the changelog starts with the system's current /etc/motd
- Positions the editor's insertion point on a newly created changelog entry after invocation
- dumps changelog diff to syslog after editor was called to allow traceability and transparency. This will also prod somebody skimming the syslog to a change that was made (probably helping her find the cause for a behavior change of the system).
Todo
- Add possiblity to give changelog entry on command line (like cvs commit -m) for automatic processing.