The release flow now sanitises the release message into the changelog house style and validates it before writing: a leading '#' heading becomes a bold line, inline `code` becomes *italic*, and the resulting entry is checked with markdownlint-cli2 (using the target repo's own config, i.e. the same rules it enforces) or a built-in fallback. In an interactive run the editor re-opens with the findings until the entry is clean; with --message it transforms then aborts on any finding. The editor's ignore-marker moved from '#' to ';' so heading lines survive as content.
debian/changelog and the RPM %changelog mirror the transformed body, keeping all three changelogs consistent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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