Re: Diffing arbitrary deb-source packages
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:27:47AM -0700, Tom wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:54:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:37:16AM -0700, Tom wrote:
> > > However, sometimes I find reading the source code helps me
> > > understand the developer's comments better. Is there any easy way
> > > to "view a diff" of two versions of an arbitrary Debian source
> > > package?
> >
> > If you have both source packages downloaded then you can use debdiff
> > (from the devscripts package) to do it. You can get the older
> > versions from snapshot.debian.net.
> >
> > I don't think anyone's done a webbified version of this yet, though.
>
> Thanks, that's absolutely perfect. I should be able to fully automate
> this. Debian rocks!
I think it would be a good idea to have an online version that didn't
require downloading source packages, incidentally, although I've no idea
how you'd go about doing it. It would help in the process of
peer-reviewing changes.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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