apt metadata

[Sasha Tsykin]

Rocco Stanzione wrote:
> 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
> 
Use the update manager, it has the change logs. As it acts as a front 
end for apt-get, presumably apt-get could as well.

Sasha