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I guess he wants to know before installing the package. Synaptic has the feature he wants but, as he said, sometimes it takes a while (hours, days?) until some changelogs are updated. However, it usually works great and it was something many of us were hoping would be added to Debian.
Scott Ransom wrote: | Have you ever used apt-listchanges? Sound like just what you | are looking for. | | Scott | | Package: apt-listchanges | Version: 2.57 | Priority: optional | Section: utils | Maintainer: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Depends: python (>= 2.3), apt (>= 0.5.3), python-apt, debconf, | ucf (>= 0.28), debianutils (>= 2.0.2) | Suggests: x-terminal-emulator, www-browser | Architecture: all | Filename: | pool/unstable/main/amd64/a/apt-listchanges/apt-listchanges_2.57_all.deb | Size: 47688 | MD5sum: a45613f74fe271afb4e6e8f10e09627e | Description: Display change history from .deb archives | apt-listchanges is a tool to show what has been changed in a | new version of a Debian package, as compared to the version | currently installed on the system. It does this by extracting | the relevant entries from the Debian changelog file, and the | NEWS.Debian file. . It can be run on several .deb archives at | a time to get a list of all of the changes that would be | effected by installing or upgrading a group of packages. It | can be configured to do this automatically during upgrades | using apt. | installed-size: 336 | | | | On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:04:14PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote: | |>Let me assure everyone before I start that I'm really happy with |>debain pure64. Fast and solid. |> |>Most of the time, when I see a package ready to download with |>apt-get upgrade, I can go to packages.debian.org, and find out |>what changed and why. Every now and then, that doesn't work. |> |>Today, for instance, I see netbase is ready to upgrade, from |>version 4.19 to version 4.20. The trouble is, looking at |>packages.debian.org, the changelog only goes up to 4.19. |>Now, netbase is kind of an important package, and I'd like |>a way to read about the changes before I load it up. |> |>Another particular example is kernel-image-2.6.10-9-amd64-k8, |>which doesn't even show up on packages.debian.org. |>In that case, I downloaded the source package, and buried in |>there I did indeed find a changelog that appeared up-to-date |>(although with a typo in it). |> |>Do these changelogs appear on the net anywhere, in a way |>such that I can avoid downloading the source every time? |>This isn't Gentoo! |> |> - Larry | | | |
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