I've just filed https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845620 to ask for wildcard version matching in apt-get changelog. That should make this bug easier to fix.

One problem remains: getting changelogs from sources that the user doesn't have enabled on his own machine:

$ apt-get -t unstable changelog smokeping=2.6.11-3
E: The value 'unstable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources

...the stable changelogs don't help, and the others aren't available. And no, adding unstable everywhere and pinning is not a solution as it's too high risk for the average user.

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