Re: getting rid of the .changes requirements

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 09:27:12PM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> 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. …

Ah, thanks. I got confused because I wasn't aware that apt-get had
this option. apt-get changelog gave me "E: Handler silently failed",
which put me off.

Thanks.

Kumar
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