On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:17:54PM +0000, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a > script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages > appears in woody. > > I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for > all packages that we have backported from the Debian web page > (http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=$package) and > then comparing the version number with the version number of our back > port. > > This doesn't work for multiple binary source packages - for example, > for libdb2-util, the URL given above returns "No such changelog file". > > Any other ideas how to do this? apt-cache show $package|grep Source Then use that value in the url (in this case db)
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