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5.6.18 ‘Changes’
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This multiline field contains the human-readable changes data,
describing the differences between the last version and the current one.

The first line of the field value (the part on the same line as
‘Changes:’) is always empty.  The content of the field is expressed as
continuation lines, with each line indented by at least one space.
Blank lines must be represented by a line consisting only of a space and
a full stop (‘.’).

The value of this field is usually extracted from the ‘debian/changelog’
file - see Note: Debian changelog; debian/changelog.

Each version’s change information should be preceded by a “title” line
giving at least the version, distribution(s) and urgency, in a
human-readable way.

If data from several versions is being returned the entry for the most
recent version should be returned first, and entries should be separated
by the representation of a blank line (the “title” line may also be
followed by the representation of a blank line).