Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 2.85.11
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,
please add an option to allow mention of the _currently installed_ package
version in the changelog generated by apt-listchanges.

It's useful for reviewing the changes when you have all the actual versions
listed on one page, without opening any additional terminals and running 'dpkg
-l foobar' or 'apt-cache policy foobar'.

Proposed sample changelog snippet:

foobar (1.3.4-5) unstable; urgency=low
<...>
 -- Foobar Maintainer <[email protected]>  Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:44:33 +0100

foobar (1.2.3-1) [currently installed]
<...>



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on:
ii  apt                    0.9.7.5
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.46
ii  debianutils            4.3.2
ii  python                 2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python-apt             0.8.4
ii  python-support         1.0.15
ii  ucf                    3.0025+nmu3

apt-listchanges recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt-listchanges suggests:
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.80-5.1
ii  iceweasel [www-browser]                    10.0.10esr-1
ii  lxterminal [x-terminal-emulator]           0.1.11-4
ii  python-glade2                              2.24.0-3
ii  python-gtk2                                2.24.0-3
ii  w3m [www-browser]                          0.5.3-8
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                278-2

-- debconf information:
* apt-listchanges/frontend: pager
* apt-listchanges/confirm: true
* apt-listchanges/which: both
* apt-listchanges/email-address: root
* apt-listchanges/save-seen: false


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