On 2006-06-08T00:31-0700 Don Armstrong wrote:
> Is there any reason why
> zcat /usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.Debian.gz |perl -ne \
> 'next unless /^ -- .+?\s{2}(.+)$/; print $1,qq(\n) and exit;';
> isn't sufficient for all non-native packages?What if that package isn't installed on your system? It's all also uglier than apt-cache show package | grep ^Date: > > Next field is URL: or URI: (http://www.w3.org/Addressing/) > > Or perhaps Upsteam-URL: > > A reference to upstream's homepage. > That should be in /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright; some packages > also have it in the description. Sure, but lets make it a little more concrete. Upstream: http://... is probably sufficient after thinking about it.
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