On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:11:13PM +0000, Andrew Puschak wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8 > jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to > jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with > the first package being nagios-nrpe. I also get a list of packages > during apt-get dist-upgrade. > > Following the same procedure on another server did not display these > unstable/experimental packages. However, checking > /var/cache/apt/archives I don't see the unstable and experimental > versions that the changlog is referring to. > > Where is the changelog seeing these versions? dpkg -l before and > after upgrade returns the versions that are stable for both releases, > matching the other server that did not display any changelogs. I'd > like to understand why it's displaying these and whether the server > has unstable packages before and after upgrading.
I'm not quite sure what you are asking, but apt-cache policy <package-name> will show the version, and repository. or is apt-listchanges installed on one server but not another? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X