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Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages



On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
[...]
> I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs from source packages
> and insert them into a SQL database.  My original intention was to allow
> apt-listchanges to display changelogs for packages before downloading them, but
> such a database would also allow for queries like this.  It would also allow
> the CGI changelog viewer to work again.

<day-dreaming>
   Yum. I'd love to see the changelog in dselect before I decide whether
to upgrade a package or not.
</day-dreaming> :-)

Maybe this could be made available as part of the 'Packages' system. I
don't mind the time it would take to download all this extra information
but it should probably be optional (kind of related to people
complaining the Packages files should not contain the description).

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