ubuntu-package-changelog

ubuntu-package-changelog can be used to get a changelog for a given Ubuntu source package. Eg:

ubuntu-package-changelog focal Updates linux-azure
linux-azure (5.4.0-1043.45) focal; urgency=medium

  [ Ubuntu: 5.4.0-70.78 ]

  * CVE-2020-27170
    - bpf: Fix off-by-one for area size in creating mask to left
  * CVE-2020-27171
    - bpf: Prohibit alu ops for pointer types not defining ptr_limit
  * binary assembly failures with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS present (LP: #1919315)
    - [Packaging] quiet (nomially) benign errors in BUILD script

 -- Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>  Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:32:55 -0300

By default, only the latest changelog entry is shown. To see more entries, use the --entries flag. It's also possible to get a changelog for a package in a PPA:

ubuntu-package-changelog -ppa cloud-images/eks-01.11.0 focal Release cni
cni (0.6.0-0ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium
[...]

It's also possible to list changelog entries for private PPAs. For that, --lp-user must be given. Eg:

ubuntu-package-changelog --lp-user toabctl --ppa fips-cc-stig/cc bionic Release fips-initramfs
fips-initramfs (0.0.11~rc5) bionic; urgency=medium
[...]

Installation

ubuntu-package-changelog is available as snap.

For installation, do:

snap install ubuntu-package-changelog

To access private PPAs, it's useful to connect the password-manager-service so authorization is only done once:

snap connect ubuntu-package-changelog:password-manager-service

The other option is installing it into a `virtualenv`:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
# now you can use the tool
ubuntu-package-changelog -h

Contributions

Please use github (https://github.com/toabctl/ubuntu-package-changelog) issues and pull requests for discussions and contribution.