(CCing debian-www for comment, please direct followups as appropriate) On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 04:06:37PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Reading it out of the diff is easy. Unfortunately, it's more an issue > on native packages - we'd still need to unpack them. Native packages are actually easier. We can extract the changelog in a pipeline, e.g. with tar xzOf debian-native_1.0.tar.gz ./path/to/changelog. This is very similar to what apt-listchanges already does (but with dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile). > My inclination is to make dinstall handle this at some future date... > build changelogs as they are installed... or perhaps (more > intelligently) dump this into the lintian lab as has been discussed. I would be willing to work on a new get-changelog.cgi if I knew who to talk to. Most of the open bugs against www.debian.org have to do with this issue. -- - mdz
