[arch-general] Viewing changelogs for packages

[Kaiting Chen]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Divan Santana <Divan at s-tainment.co.za>wrote:

> I'd like to view the change logs of new packages when new updates are
> available.
>
> I see pacman -Qc would display a changelog of a package installed.
> It seems that 95% of the packages(on my system anyway) don't have a
> changelog.
>
> Is pacman -Qc supposed to show upstream changelogs for a package or is it
> really for arch specific changes to a package? Is there plans to include
> changelogs in packages more in future?
>
> How do other users follow the changelog of particular package?
> I suppose just visit upstream package site's website and read what's new?
>

Yeah most of the packages don't have changelogs. You can use the web
interface to check out the commit history for the package in question to see
any Arch-specific changes. For upstream changes you'll have to consult
upstream. --Kaiting.

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