Package changelogs

[Øyvind Stegard]

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 14:45, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Øyvind Stegard wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 September 2006 12:58, Øyvind Stegard wrote:
> >> I recently switched all my machines
> >> over to Kubuntu, and I'm overall very happy. But, in RPM based distros,
> >> the changelogs of packages were embedded in the package itself, so I
> >> could use RPM to query for it. This does not seem to be the case with
> >> DEB packages. As an example, I recently got an updated kernel package
> >> installed: linux-image-2.6.15-27-686. My question is simple: where can I
> >> find the changelog for this package ? I like to see what's going on,
> >> what's been fixed, etc..
> >
> > Found it myself:
>
> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/l/linux-source-2.6.15/lin
>ux-source-2.6.15_2.6.15-27.48/
>
> That works, but the changelogs _are_ in the package.  There are a number of
> ways to see them - kpackage (and iirc synaptic) will show them.  They will
> normally be installed to /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/changelog.gz.
>
> # aptitude changelog PACKAGE
>
> does essentially the same thing as your URL above.
>
> I use apt-listchanges, which ensures I get an email copy of all the
> changelogs for the updates I install.
Thanks for this info. Now I've learned two new things today :)

Øyvind
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