How to tell what has changed after an update?

[Patrick Doyle]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Patrick Doyle wrote:
>> 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
>
> aptitude changelog x11-common
>
> Note that this will connect to the net.  It will show the latest
> changelog by default (which includes multiple changesets).  However, you
> can instead do, e.g.
>
> aptitude changelog x11-common=1:7.4+3ubuntu7
>
> Not all versions will have a accessible file, though.
>
> Matt Flaschen
ok, suppuse I wanted to go a little deeper than just the changelog.
Is there an official Ubuntu cvs/svn/git/hg repository from which I
could see the diffs between, e.g. x11-common 1.7.4+3ubuntu7 and
1.7.4+3ubuntu10?

--wpd