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dh_installchangelogs: Add --since option to include only recent entries

Gioele Barabucci requested to merge gioele/debhelper:installchangelogs-since into main

Changelogs of older and heavily developed packages can reach sizes of hundreds of kilobytes. Even after compression, such big changelogs are a waste of space and bandwidth worldwide.

The --since option trims changelogs to include only recent changelog entries, for example all changelog entries added after a Debian release (e.g. --since oldstable, --since debian10) or after a specific date (e.g. --since 2020-04-18).

An additional commit enables --since oldstable by default in compat 14.

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