MS fonts update

[Patton Echols]

On 01/28/2011 10:04 AM, Verde Denim wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:22 PM, P. Echols <p.echo926 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:p.echo926 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     This AM I processed a bunch of updates on my lucid box.  One was
>     an update to the mstcorefonts package. I didn't notice it
>     initially because there were 65 updates .but it's forced me to
>     click through the EULA. because it is a font package, I now wonder
>     what was changed.
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>     Is there a way to find out what changed in the most recent update
>     of a package? Thanks for all thoughts.
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>     PE
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> P
> I saw that same update. Generally, I go through synaptic to add most 
> packages since I'm usually browsing various parts of the repos to see 
> what's there. You can select a package, then on the menu bar, select 
> package->properties. This has much of the same info as using apt-cache 
> policy at the command line, but also lists dependencies and a 
> description of the package that I noted sometimes includes release 
> notes. I'm not terribly skilled at all of this yet, but hope this 
> helps somewhat.

Yes, thanks. Though apt-cache policy does not return much for the fonts 
package.  Certainly nothing to do with the last changes.   Following 
your suggestion I looked again at synaptics and the package menu also 
includes a "download changelog" item.  Though I think Gary's method of 
going to /usr/share/docs/<packagename>/changelog.gz is as easy.

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> I did notice in a search for _core fonts_ in the repo that 
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer has a note in its description that says it 
> conflicts with and replaces msttcorefonts. I wonder if the update has 
> something to do with this (and the fact that msttcorefonts is not in 
> any of the repos I have).

Yes, that's what I meant.  I'd posted from my gmail account and 
remembered the name wrong.

Thanks for the thoughts

--PE