Re: ITP: apt-listchanges (formerly debchanges)

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

>>>> "MZ" == Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

[...]

MZ> Package: apt-listchanges
MZ> Version: 1.2
MZ> Priority: optional
MZ> Section: utils
MZ> Maintainer: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
MZ> Depends: perl5, libnewt-perl
MZ> Architecture: all
MZ> Filename: ./apt-listchanges_1.2_all.deb
MZ> Size: 7174
MZ> MD5sum: b0ac8bf9d53e34ccad82c311f3d02733
MZ> Description: Display new Debian changelog entries from .deb archives
MZ>   apt-listchanges is a tool to show what has been changed in a new version
MZ>   of a Debian package, as compared to the version currently installed on
MZ>   the system.
MZ>   .
MZ>   It does this by extracting the relevant entries from the Debian
MZ>   changelog file, usually found in
MZ>   /usr/doc/package/changelog.Debian.gz
MZ> installed-size: 76

Like that "dblog package"?

>From my .bashrc

dblog() 
{ 
    if [ -e /usr/share/doc/$1/changelog.Debian.gz ]; then
        less /usr/share/doc/$1/changelog.Debian.gz;
    else
        if [ -e /usr/doc/$1/changelog.Debian.gz ]; then
            less /usr/doc/$1/changelog.Debian.gz;
        fi;
    fi;
}

Christian