Hi! I just wrote this small(100b) command to extract the changelog from a .deb. This is fast, but not bugfree: it works only with packages which one's Debian changelog is called changelog.Debian.gz. (The "*" should be replaced with the package name, but not really needed, as that file name is not widely used really.) You have to pump the .deb into the standard input, and you'll probably have the changelog on the standard out.
ar p /dev/stdin data.tar.gz | tar xzfO /dev/stdin ./usr/share/doc/*/changelog.Debian.gz | gzip -dc - Regards, -- Lenart, Janos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
