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Re: Snarfing changelogs from packages.debian.org



On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:12:41PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>   I'd like to write some code to view a package's ChangeLog by downloading it
> from the Debian servers.  Is it safe to depend upon the following URL working?
> http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=%s

I'm using that for a looong time now... simple shell function,

changelog() {
  [ $# = 1 ] && lynx master/cgi-bin/get-changelog\?package=$1
}

>   Also, are there any other goodies available besides that and the
> copyright -- eg, viewing README.Debian, etc.

I don't think so...

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