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Re: getting rid of the .changes requirements



On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 06:33:34PM -0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 02:26:28PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 12:02:01PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > >  My personal opinion was always that there is no way currently to get
> > > the full changelog -- which isn't true anymore.  The packages website
> > > already links the full changelog also for backports packages, and I
> > > definitely enjoy that we managed to get there.  What currently is still
> > > missing for me being a bit more pleased is that aptitude changelog would
> > > be able to show the changelog of a backported packate.
> > 
> > Just use 'apt-get changelog' instead of aptitude.
> 
> Apologies, but I did not understand. What do you mean by 'apt-get
> changelog'?

He meant to use 'apt-get changelog' instead of 'aptitude changelog'.
From apt-get(8):

  changelog
      changelog downloads a package changelog and displays it through sensible-pager. …

-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>

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