Re: Availability of debian changelogs
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:53:48PM +0100, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2008, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> > It's not convenient to download 20M only for viewing a changelog -
> > i want look at changelog to decide, should i upgrade this package or
> > no.
>
> In general you will be able to view them using packages.debian.org.
> There is just a delay while packages.debian.org rebuilds the
> changelogs. If that delay is unacceptable, then getting the package
> itself is the way around it. Otherwise, you can wait for p.d.o to
> catch up.
In my experience, packages.qa.debian.org/package is usually quite quick
to have the latest changelog, in form of the changes file. The rest of
the changelog should be available via packages.debian.org.
Michael
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