Hi there
On 10/04/2026 04:36, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 09/04/2026 1:44 pm, Rob van der Putten wrote:
There is no need to guess. I clearly stated that I build backports.
I admit you did it, but description of issues you faced with your
approach was more verbose.
So I need to keep track of changes in Debian versions that are not
installed on any of my systems.
Am I right that you need notifications about new package versions
similar to
<https://tracker.debian.org/news/1714333/accepted-
asterisk-12282dfsgcs61560671435-1-source-into-unstable/>?
Perhaps registered users might be able to subscribe to email
notifications specific to a source package, but there is at least public
RSS feed with package-related events. I would consider it if you need to
track just a handful of packages.
I could not find information about this in any of the man pages.
So how do I use apt-listchanges or "apt changelog PKG" to keep track
of changes of certain packages in Sid on a Bookworm system? And how do
I run this from cron?
Add sid repositories to apt configuration with negative priority to
prevent updates from it.
I tested this with 'bookworm-backports' (I still run bookworm), just to
make sure that it would not update anything. Which is exactly what
happens. As one would expect.
The same test with 'sid' however, does want to do an update. Which is
rather unexpected.
I do not have sid, but the following command
works for testing:
apt-get changelog asterisk-core-sounds-en/testing
I posted "apt changelog PKG" in my first reply expecting that it should
be enough.
Sending me an email whenever a change occurs.
If you detect new version (e.g. from "apt-cache show..." or aptitude
output) than you may diff fetched changelog with its earlier version.
Perhaps apt-listchanges has a low level command for that.
Regards,
Rob
