Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

[Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>]

* Guillem Jover (guillem@debian.org) [120612 09:00]:
> I disagree placing it in the dpkg database is not helpful, for a user
> or other programs wanting to access that structured package metadata
> it's obviously easier and better to do something like
> «dpkg --show-changelog foo» or «dpkg-query --control-path foo changelog»,
> than having to go hunt where in the filesystem the changelog might be

I don't see why "dpkg --show-changelog foo" can't work even if the
changelog is stored in the filesystem.



Andi