When I type
aptitude dist-upgrade
I get for example:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bc{a} linux-image-2.6.32-24-virtual linux-image-2.6.32-308-ec2
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt apt-transport-https apt-utils base-files bijk-node binutils cloud-init grub-common grub-pc icedtea-6-jre-cacao ifupdown landscape-client landscape-common
libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libgssapi-krb5-2 libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libldap-2.4-2 libmysqlclient16 libpcsclite1 libsmbclient libudev0
libusb-0.1-4 libwbclient0 libwww-perl lintian linux-ec2 linux-image-ec2 linux-image-virtual linux-libc-dev linux-virtual mountall mysql-client-5.1
mysql-client-core-5.1 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.1 mysql-server-core-5.1 openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib python-apt
python-lazr.restfulclient sudo tzdata tzdata-java udev update-manager-core upstart ureadahead w3m wget
54 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 103MB of archives. After unpacking 89.4MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
What I would like to know is what changed in each upgrade candidate. Is there a way I can see a list of all the changes in those packages?
I know I can do
aptitude changelog mysql-server
And I could probably grep & awk the candidates and pipe them to the changelog command, but executing that takes a long time.
Is there a better way to get a full changelog of a dist-upgrade?
