On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [...] > I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs from source > packages > and insert them into a SQL database. My original intention was to allow > apt-listchanges to display changelogs for packages before downloading them, > but > such a database would also allow for queries like this. It would also allow > the CGI changelog viewer to work again.
<day-dreaming> Yum. I'd love to see the changelog in dselect before I decide whether to upgrade a package or not. </day-dreaming> :-) Maybe this could be made available as part of the 'Packages' system. I don't mind the time it would take to download all this extra information but it should probably be optional (kind of related to people complaining the Packages files should not contain the description). -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fgouget.free.fr/ RFC 2549: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2549.txt IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service