Re: RFC: debchanges

[younie@home.com (Rick Younie)]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> For my own use, I have written a small Perl script that, given a status file
> and a set of .debs, will extract changelogs from the debs for all versions
> between the version in the status file and the version in the .deb (that is,
> all versions in the interval (statusversion,debversion]).  A copy is attach=
> ed.
> 
> I have been using it for a while now to keep track of what changes are being
> applied to the system during upgrades while tracking unstable.  This is use=

Sounds like a great idea.

> - Has someone else already done this (better)?  The only place I see
>     related functionality is in aptitude, which uses (something similar to)
>   <http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog>, which returns the complete
>   (outdated) changelog with some HTML formatting.

I really miss that.  Someone posted it to this list long ago as a
bash function.  It hasn't worked properly for several months.

changelog() {
 [ $# = 1 ] && lynx http://master.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog\?package=$1
}

Rick
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