Bug#690437: apt: Changelog is called by apt-get while apt-cache is more logical

[Daniel Hartwig <mandyke@gmail.com>]

Hello

On 14 October 2012 19:41, Kees de Jong <keesdejong@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.9.7.5
> Severity: minor
>
> The description of apt-cache in the man page is as follows: apt-cache does not
>        manipulate the state of the system but does provide operations to search
> and generate
>        interesting output from the package metadata.
>
> Yet apt-get is used to request changelogs of packages e.g. `apt-get changelog
> gnome-shell`. Either the man pages should be corrected or changelog should be
> included into the apt-cache command. Thanks

The package metadata referred to is located in /var/lib/apt/lists.
These are the Packages and Release files retrieved from the mirrors.

Changelogs are not included in that.  They are fetched on demand,
hence “apt-get changelog”.

Regards