Following is the changelog for deb822 before it was merged into python-debian.

deb822 (0.3) unstable; urgency=low

* deb822.py:
- Allow Deb822 objects to be initialized with a dict containing the initial
key-value pairs.
- _multivalued class:
+ Make all the multivalued dicts Deb822Dict objects, so the keys are
case-preserving, but case-insensitive
- Add a Release class, which knows about Release-file multivalued fields.
Thanks to Alexandre Fayolle. (Closes: 428540)
- Deb822Dict no longer directly subclasses dict. All of the important
methods were already implemented with userdict.DictMixin; the dict
subclass was so that Python would see a Deb822Dict instance as a dict
instance. Unfortunately, this causes confusion if you do something like
d = dict(Deb822Dict({'foo': 'bar'})
The "Pythonic" way to check for a dictionary interface is to check for
the 'items' attribute.
* test_deb822.py:
- Add a test case for deriving a Python dict from a Deb822Dict.
* debian/control:
- Add a XS-Vcs-Bzr field

-- John Wright <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:37:05 -0600

deb822 (0.2) unstable; urgency=low

* debian/rules:
- Tell setup.py not to compile the modules -- python-support does that at
install time
* README:
- Fix a typo
* debian/control:
- Improve the description
- Remove X[BS]-Python-Version fields, as per python-support README
* deb822.py:
- Add a get_pool_path() method to the Changes class which returns the path
in the pool you would expect to find the files listed in the .changes
file
- Fix a typo in Deb822Dict.__init__ where I was referring to fields, not
_fields
* Remove debian/pycompat, as per python-support README

-- John Wright <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:40:54 -0700

deb822 (0.1) unstable; urgency=low

* Initial packaging (Closes: 380173)

-- John Wright <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:00:32 -0700