Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a > script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages > appears in woody. > > I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for > all packages that we have backported from the Debian web page > (http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=3D$package) and > then comparing the version number with the version number of our back > port. > > This doesn't work for multiple binary source packages - for example, > for libdb2-util, the URL given above returns "No such changelog file".
Hi, lynx -dump http://packages.debian.org/libdb2-util might do what you want. Or add woody to sources.list and parse the Packages files locally. I think you'd also need to run the development APT at people.d.o/~jgg to tag woody so it isn't an install candidate. Rick --
