Re: view changelogs of new packages before installing them

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:27:31PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:05:01PM +0100, Andre Berger (uzscd5@uni-bonn.de) wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > can I view a package's changelog without having to download it first?
> > This would be esp. useful for intended large downloads such as
> > kernel-source-*; even kernel-doc-* is more than one meg to download each
> > time.
> 
>     $ apt-get install --download-only package
> 
> ...You can then browse the package file itself through tools like mc,
> gmc, or nautilus, or unpack it (it's a shar shell archive) to a
> convenient location.
> 
> ...I'm not aware that package files are available independently of the
> packages themselves.

One could try adding this changelog script to ~/.bashrc:

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

However, it doesn't seem to work anymore... Maybe the change to package
pools eliminated to changelogs?

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>