[Aptitude-devel] aptitude 0.6.8-1

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

2012/6/6 Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com>:
> On 6 June 2012 12:06, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> - aptitude-common: architecture independent data files, translations, etc.
>
> Commands used to verify that no files were lost:
>
> $ debdiff aptitude_0.6.7-1_i386.deb aptitude-common_0.6.8-1_all.deb
> # files missing from second deb must appear in:
> $ dpkg-deb -c aptitude_0.6.8-1_i386.deb

Probably you already know this, but just in case...

debdiff can be used to compare .dsc and .changes files, like

  debdiff aptitude_0.6.[78]-1*.dsc
  debdiff aptitude_0.6.[78]-1*.changes

The former will unpack the sources and will tell you exactly the
differences, the latter will compare *all* of your binaries at once so
it will tell you if there's something missing, or which files moved
between packages (as well as differences in dependencies,
descriptions, installed sizes and so on).

So in this case, it will tell very clearly which files in
aptitude_0.6.7-1 moved to aptitude-common_0.6.8-1.

Cheers.