Re: Diffing arbitrary deb-source packages

[Tom <tb.nospam@comcast.net>]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:54:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:37:16AM -0700, Tom wrote:
> > I've installed apt-listchanges and started reading the associated bug 
> > reports in changelogs when I upgrade unstable, so I'm doing a lot better 
> > understanding what's going on with my packages.
> > 
> > However, sometimes I find reading the source code helps me understand 
> > the developer's comments better.  Is there any easy way to "view a diff" 
> > of two versions of an arbitrary Debian source package?
> 
> If you have both source packages downloaded then you can use debdiff
> (from the devscripts package) to do it. You can get the older versions
> from snapshot.debian.net.
> 
> I don't think anyone's done a webbified version of this yet, though.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> 

Thanks, that's absolutely perfect.  I should be able to fully automate 
this.  Debian rocks!