get change logs on the command line?

Tommy Trussell tommy.trussell at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 14:40:11 UTC 2015


On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
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>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 18 March 2015 at 14:19, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 14:43 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
>>> >> > How does the updater get the changelog?
>>> >>
>>> >> Oh how embarrassing.
>>> >>
>>> >> Turns out apt-get has a "changelog" option.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > I don't see a way to show the changelog in apt-get without installing
>>> an
>>> > additional Ubuntu package. Which package did you install, or did you
>>> find an
>>> > obscure apt command?
>>>
>>> apt-get changelog <package>
>>> works for me.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>
>>
>> I guess it's time for ME to be embarassed!
>>
>>
> Although when I try it, the message I get is
>
> "Handler silently failed."
>
>
nevermind -- it works correctly when I specify the package name correctly
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