apt and changelogs

[Nick Hastings]

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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[Matt Peter]

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?

-matt


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[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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

vim will automatically gunzip a .gz file when you tell it to open it.
zcat is just like cat, except it gunzips the file first.

HTH,
-D

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[mody@quick.cz]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:54:14AM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote:

> or install apt-listchanges

Which is not installable on testing. :-( I miss is!

Mody

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[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:36:26PM -0400, David Corbin wrote:

> On Monday 04 August 2003 20:54, Hugh Saunders wrote:

> > or install apt-listchanges

>
> It fails for me, with this:
>
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> apt-listchanges: Depends: python (>= 2.2.2) but 2.1.3-3.2 is to be installed
> Depends: python-apt but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> Is this a local problem of mine, or debian problem?

A fair bit of the dependency tree above apt is broken in testing at the
moment. It's being worked on.

Cheers,

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