On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:31:29AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jun 2006, Kai Hendry wrote: > > One being Date: > > > > To show when the package was last touched. Currently I get this > > information from the painfully from the "Latest News" section of the QA > > page, e.g.: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/geomview.html > > Is there any reason why > > zcat /usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.Debian.gz |perl -ne \ > 'next unless /^ -- .+?\s{2}(.+)$/; print $1,qq(\n) and exit;';
Rather use dpkg-parsechangelog: zcat /usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.Debian.gz| dpkg-parsechangelog -l- |grep '^Date' Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]