apt metadata

[Rocco Stanzione]

As far as i can tell, apt doesn't provide a way to see the changelog of a 
pending update.  This would be very useful information.  On rpm-based systems 
(at least the ones I've used) the changelog is part of the package metadata 
downloaded with the equivalent of apt-get update.  This made updates slower, 
but on stable systems they shouldn't be happening so often as to be a real 
problem (again, it never was a problem on the systems I used).

I'm bringing it up here rather than on the -devel list because, well, it seems 
like it would require a major overhaul of apt that's obviously not going to 
happen for dapper, if at all, but maybe somebody has a better idea for making 
package changelogs available pre-update.

Rocco Stanzione