Am Fre, 23. Nov 2001, 22:22:21 +0100 schrieb Flavio Stanchina: > I guess everyone else running testing or unstable too has the habit of > reading the changelogs of updated packages to see what has been fixed and > to know what might break. Is there a place on www.debian.org where I can > proactively read the changelogs before upgrading packages? Sure it's right > in front of my nose somewhere, but hell I can't find it. However, there > doesn't appear to be anything like that on the package page and that would > be its place, alongside with the bug list. Have a look at the package apt-listchanges. It shows the changelog after downloading but before actually installing the new packages. It gives you the option to abort the upgrade if you dislike the changes AFAIR. Description: Display new Debian changelog entries from .deb archives apt-listchanges is a tool to show what has been changed in a new version of a Debian package, as compared to the version currently installed on the system. It does this by extracting the relevant entries from the Debian changelog file, usually found in /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.Debian.gz . It can be run on several .deb archives at a time to get a list of all of the changes that would be effected by installing or upgrading a group of packages. It can be configured to do this automatically during upgrades using apt. Jö. -- It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. -- Albert Einstein
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