Feature Request: --noedit and --date switches

[Thomas]

Hope this is a good place to put ...

Whats the problem? I need to create a changelog file from a git history via bash script. Therefore I added two changes into the perl debchange script which I would like to propose as a permanent improvement.

Line 900, instead of simply getting the system date, allow to provide a date opt_date via command line:

...
my $DATE = undef;
if ($opt_date) {
    # parse time string and re-format, same as -R
    my $time = str2time($opt_date, $opt_tz);
    $DATE = time2str("%a, %e %b %Y %T %z", $time);
} else {
    # Get the date
    my $date_cmd = ($opt_tz ? "TZ=$opt_tz " : "") . "date -R";
    chomp($DATE=`$date_cmd`);
}
...

Line 1473, really skip the editor to allow batch processing by a new option opt_noedit:

# Now Run the Editor; always run if doing "closes" to give a chance to check
# @changed: for batch processing allow to skip editing
...
if (!$opt_noedit and ((!$TEXT and !$EMPTY_TEXT and ! ($opt_create and $opt_empty)) or @closes_text or
    ($opt_create and ! ($PACKAGE ne 'PACKAGE' and $VERSION ne 'VERSION')))) {
...

I do have the rare impression that this here might not be the right place ... but I could not find a better one. Feel free to advice me to do better.
thx