On Thu, 08 Jun 2006, Kai Hendry wrote:
> One being Date:
>
> To show when the package was last touched. Currently I get this
> information from the painfully from the "Latest News" section of the QA
> page, e.g.: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/geomview.html
Is there any reason why
zcat /usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.Debian.gz |perl -ne \
'next unless /^ -- .+?\s{2}(.+)$/; print $1,qq(\n) and exit;';
isn't sufficient for all non-native packages?
> Next field is URL: or URI: (http://www.w3.org/Addressing/)
> Or perhaps Upsteam-URL:
>
> A reference to upstream's homepage.
That should be in /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright; some packages
also have it in the description.
Don Armstrong
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