Re: apt and changelogs

[Nick Hastings <hastings@bmail.kek.jp>]

Hi,

* Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dman@dman13.dyndns.org> [030805 11:33]:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Matt Peter wrote:
> | hello,
> | 
> | Is there a debian-way of viewing the changelog for an app?  I can 
> | usually find them .gz'd up on my system, but it's a hassle, is there 
> | any simple way to view a changelog?
> 
> Is
>     $ vim /usr/share/doc/<foo>/changelog.Debian.gz
> really such a hassle?
> 
> Or, if you prefer
>     $ zcat /usr/share/doc/<foo>/changelog.Debian.gz | $PAGER

Or even 

$ zless /usr/share/doc/<foo>/changelog.Debian.gz


how about making a one line script:

#!/bin/sh
zless /usr/share/doc/$1/changelog.Debian.gz

Cheers,

Nick.

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