How to tell what has changed after an update?

[Amber Graner]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:

> How can I tell what has changed after an update?  I presume (never
> having looked at them very carefully) that the changelogs in
> /usr/share/doc probably contain top level summaries.  Is there some
> file I can look at or some apt/dpkg command I can run to determine
> what packages were installed/updated when?  Presumably, if I sort that
> by date, I can see what has changed after a recent update.
>
> Suppose I wanted more details about a particular package, for example,
> x11-common, (I don't know if that has changed recently or not, but
> I've picked it because I happen to be trying to track down a
> particular change in behavior of X11 right now).  That package is
> listed as version 1:7.4+3ubuntu7.  I presume I could grab the
> cvs/svn/git/mercurial source tree for version 7.4 of xorg, but how
> could I tell what specific changes were enacted in going from 3ubuntu6
> to 3ubuntu7?  How would I even know that version 1:7.4+3ubuntu6 was
> the version I had installed prior to version 1:7.4+3ubuntu7?
>
> Thanks for helping me figure this out.  As I said, I would rather
> learn the proper tools to figure this out on my own, rather than just
> finding out what the recent change to x11-common was (if there even
> was a recent change).
>
> --wpd
>
>
you should be able to go to packages.ubuntu.com and find the package you are
looking for  by release by version and there should be a link that says
changelog  iirc  Hope this helps

akgraner

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