How to keep up with updates to testing and unstable?

**aay** · 06-12-2003, 06:08 PM

Does anyone know if there is a debian page that tracks what packages have been newly added to testing and unstable? I know where to find the entire list of packages that are in these trees, but I'm I'm only interested in seeing new packages and updates - something akin to freshmeat for debian.

**w.nelson** · 06-12-2003, 08:04 PM

Your best bet is to do the following:

apt-get update
apt-get -s dist-upgrade --------> This allows you to see the updates before you apply them

O.T. you can also go here for updates ie. news: http://www.debianplanet.org/

w

**aay** · 06-12-2003, 09:32 PM

Right. I pretty much always use the -s option. What I'm looking for here is not so much a listing of updates for my particular system, but rather a way to see what new packages have been added into the various debian trees or updated packages which I don't have currently installed. Debian Weekly News does something like this with it's "New or Noteworthy Packages" list.

Now that i think of it, perhaps there is a way to have apt do this by comparing the new packages available to your old list after doing a "apt-get update". But i'm not sure about the synatx here.

De