apt-listdifferences(1)

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✨ NAME ✨

Okay bestie, you're reading the apt-listdifferences(1) manual page — from the General Commands Manual, no less. The tool is apt-listdifferences, and it's the source differences notification tool. It's giving "let me tell you when sources change" energy. 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

apt-listdifferences [ --apt | --initialize | <list of package names> ]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so apt-listdifferences will show the differences, or the patch, between the sources for all packages as they get updated. That makes it possible to easily review the source changes that have been included in new Debian package updates. Literally your little source-change microscope, and it ate. 🔥

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --apt — expect a list of packages, one per line, on stdin. So like, feed it package names and it's ready. 💅
  • --initialize — download the source database based on existing installed packages. It's giving "set me up from what you already have." ✨
  • <list of packages> — a list of Debian package files to use as reference. Yep, actual Debian package files, bestie. 🎀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This iconic page was written by Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>. Respect the author, periodt. 💜

Sign-off, mwah 💋: this page is dated 2013-08-11, and it's the apt-listdifferences(1) manual. Byeee 🫶

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