On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:11:52PM +0200, Dennis Schoen wrote: > ANNOUNCE: First official release of "apt-show-source" > > What is it? > > It's a perl script that parses the dpkg status file and that APT > list files that end with Sources, without any options it prints out all > installed packages and versions were a different version is available > through your sources-list. The generated output looks like: IMHO this script/package is very usefull for people working with/on Debian on platforms different that intel (build daemons are sometimes lagged). It's very tedious task to lookup if there is newer version of Debian package available in sources. At least i find it very usefull (well right now i'm judging only on the basis of this mail <<i'm trying to download at the very moment>>) -- Robert Ramiega | robert@plukwa.net IRC: _Jedi_ | Don't underestimate UIN: 13201047 | http://www.plukwa.net/ | the power of Source
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