Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:40:12AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann > <deb...@abeckmann.de> was heard to say: >> it would be nice if aptitude could display the NEWS(.Debian) file (if >> one exists) like it can show you the Changelog(.Debian). > > This could be implemented for installed packages fairly easily. > Unfortunately, it can't be implemented for packages that haven't been > installed yet, because NEWS.Debian isn't available in the archive.
There is http://bugs.debian.org/419201 "packages.debian.org: Please include packages NEWS file". In case this gets fixed, the NEWS file could be downloaded (for official packages), while displaying the local NEWS file of installed packages would still work for unofficial packages. There is also an aptitude bug about displaying the changelog of (installed) unofficial packages by showing the locally installed file (http://bugs.debian.org/427222) or falling back to the locally installed file if the PTS has not caught up, yet. That last point would apply to the NEWS file, too. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
