{"id":638,"date":"2007-10-10T20:05:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T01:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/10\/rpm-q-changelog-in-debian-on-irc-or-adventures-in-the-land-of-ubuntu"},"modified":"2007-10-10T20:05:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T01:05:06","slug":"rpm-q-changelog-in-debian-on-irc-or-adventures-in-the-land-of-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/10\/rpm-q-changelog-in-debian-on-irc-or-adventures-in-the-land-of-ubuntu","title":{"rendered":"rpm -q –changelog in Debian | on IRC (or adventures in the land of #ubuntu)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I had a problem. I’d been used to doing rpm -q --changelog <packagename> <\/tt> and generally piping that through less<\/tt>. I sat at a Ubuntu terminal, and wondered how to do this. Poring through the man<\/tt> pages for apt-get<\/tt> or even dpkg<\/tt>, proved worthless. So, I hopped on to #ubuntu on Freenode, to have a rather enlightening conversation:

Oct 11 10:11:37 <ccharles>      hi! does anyone here know the dpkg\/apt equivalent to rpm -q --changelog ?
Oct 11 10:12:10 <Pelo>  ccharles, man apt and man dpkg see what it says
Oct 11 10:12:46 <ccharles>      Pelo: you'd think i had already tried that, and failed, which is why i came here
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At which point, I’m wondering what the clue-level of the channel is. So I hop onto #luv, the channel for my local LUG, and ask there. Not long after, I post this back on #ubuntu:

Oct 11 10:34:19 <ccharles>      pelo: the correct answer next time, is apt-listchanges, or even zless \/usr\/share\/doc\/<packagename>\/changelog.Debian.gz or if you have internet access, aptitude changelog <packagename> (with thanks to cafuego<\/a> for telling me)
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I remember in my active Fedora days, we used to refer to #fedora as a bit of a wasteland, largely populated by meat-heads. However, it was also the primary contact point for non-meat-heads, for a non-development question. And a lot of folk on #fedora-devel never ever joined #fedora. This is probably largely the same with #ubuntu\/#ubuntu-devel. This creates a disconnect<\/i> within the community.<\/p>\n

rpm -q –changelog equivalents on Debian<\/b><\/p>\n