Hello On 14 October 2012 19:41, Kees de Jong <keesdej...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.9.7.5 > Severity: minor > > The description of apt-cache in the man page is as follows: apt-cache does not > manipulate the state of the system but does provide operations to > search > and generate > interesting output from the package metadata. > > Yet apt-get is used to request changelogs of packages e.g. `apt-get changelog > gnome-shell`. Either the man pages should be corrected or changelog should be > included into the apt-cache command. Thanks
The package metadata referred to is located in /var/lib/apt/lists. These are the Packages and Release files retrieved from the mirrors. Changelogs are not included in that. They are fetched on demand, hence “apt-get changelog”. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
