Re: Diffing arbitrary deb-source packages
From: Tom (tb.nospam_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/06/03
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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 03:27:47 -0700 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:54:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:37:16AM -0700, Tom wrote:
> > I've installed apt-listchanges and started reading the associated bug
> > reports in changelogs when I upgrade unstable, so I'm doing a lot better
> > understanding what's going on with my packages.
> >
> > However, sometimes I find reading the source code helps me understand
> > the developer's comments better. Is there any easy way to "view a diff"
> > of two versions of an arbitrary Debian source package?
>
> If you have both source packages downloaded then you can use debdiff
> (from the devscripts package) to do it. You can get the older versions
> from snapshot.debian.net.
>
> I don't think anyone's done a webbified version of this yet, though.
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
Thanks, that's absolutely perfect. I should be able to fully automate
this. Debian rocks!
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