replying on my own :- 2010/12/9 shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > Now this might come as a bit of I don't know what after that nice > intro. I had tried to install Debian some 4-6 years back and due to it > being so hard gave up. Then went to Ubuntu sometime and now back. > > This background info. is/was necessary as I might ask > queries/questions coming from that background. > > In Ubuntu they have a nice page where the newest packages within a > release can be known. For e.g. now its Natty (11.04) hence > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty . If I want to distill down I can > go all the way to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/amd64/+builds (my > architecture :)) and know which packages were successfully built. > > Is there anyway to know the latest packages available within > testing/Squeeze on some central location/webpage ? > > While I can do $sudo apt-get update and get that info. I'm on a mirror > and mirrors take time to get the files distributed. Also I don't want > to put any load on the main server and happy downloading a little > later but would like to know if there is a specific webpage where such > details can be ascertained.
While there doesn't seem to be anything fixed but the list debian-testing-changes seems to be quite a bit closer to what I am/was looking for http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-changes/ Does everybody agree ? >From what I understand for all sense and purposes debian-testing and Squeeze are practically the same thing. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=qwxcukoar1xluyfy5fb8jxhz6dme7bah1i...@mail.gmail.com