get change logs on the command line?

[Karl Auer]

How does the updater get the changelog?

I want to be able to find out *on the command line* what a given update
entails. It must be possible to do this without downloading the updated
package, because the updater does it!

I've googled this, but the various solutions all seem to involving
having the updated package already downloaded. There seems to be some
possibility with piping the output from "apt show" into apt-listchanges,
but when I try that with packages all I see is package descriptions, not
changelogs.

Regards, K.

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