On 09/04/2026 1:44 pm, Rob van der Putten wrote:
There is no need to guess. I clearly stated that I build backports.
I admit you did it, but description of issues you faced with your
approach was more verbose.
So I
need to keep track of changes in Debian versions that are not installed
on any of my systems.
Am I right that you need notifications about new package versions similar to
<https://tracker.debian.org/news/1714333/accepted-asterisk-12282dfsgcs61560671435-1-source-into-unstable/>?
Perhaps registered users might be able to subscribe to email
notifications specific to a source package, but there is at least public
RSS feed with package-related events. I would consider it if you need to
track just a handful of packages.
I could not find information about this in any of
the man pages.
So how do I use apt-listchanges or "apt changelog PKG" to keep track of
changes of certain packages in Sid on a Bookworm system? And how do I
run this from cron?
Add sid repositories to apt configuration with negative priority to
prevent updates from it. I do not have sid, but the following command
works for testing:
apt-get changelog asterisk-core-sounds-en/testing
I posted "apt changelog PKG" in my first reply expecting that it should
be enough.
Sending me an email whenever a change occurs.
If you detect new version (e.g. from "apt-cache show..." or aptitude
output) than you may diff fetched changelog with its earlier version.
Perhaps apt-listchanges has a low level command for that.
