Hello Pedro! On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:32:58PM +0000, Pedro M. (Morphix User) wrote: > I suggest in Synaptic the user can see the description of the updates, > before installing it (not only the description of the total program ). > > This is, include the more significant innovations. |fernst@live:~$ apt-cache show apt-listchanges |Package: apt-listchanges |[...] |Description: Display new Debian changelog entries from .deb archives | apt-listchanges is a tool to show what has been changed in a new | version of a Debian package, as compared to the version currently | installed on the system. It does this by extracting the relevant | entries from the Debian changelog file, usually found in | /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.Debian.gz | . | It can be run on several .deb archives at a time to get a list of all | of the changes that would be effected by installing or upgrading a | group of packages. It can be configured to do this automatically | during upgrades using apt. Using aptitude you can also download the changelog before even downloading the new debs... HTH, Flo
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