Re: [Synaptic-devel] FR: changelog

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Sviataslau Svirydau wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> There was a litle discussion in <sisyphus at altlinux.ru> mailing list 
> with suggestion to make changelog available.
> It's not so hard to make it for installed package versions, but more 
> interesting to have it for new version or for not yet installed package 
> to decide if upgrade/installation of package really needed or not.
> It's not good idea to include changelog in apt indexes because of size. 
> But at least for rpm there was workaround suggested: on request download 
> rpm package header and fetch changelog from there (it should be 
> perforned on apt-level, I think). And I can't say anything about debian 
> packages, somebody can?
> 
> Any ideas?

This is something I've been thinking about for a long time.. and yes it 
would be nice. I agree it should happen on apt level (actually I'd like to 
expose some other things as well, like file listing of a package - IIRC 
synaptic has a debian-specific thing to do this but should be generic 
through libapt-pkg).

        - Panu -