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Debian's APT Gaining Built-In History Command


Rather than needing to parse package/history log files manually and akin to functionality provided by Red Hat's DNF, a merge request is pending to add a built-in history command for APT. Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee Simon Johnsson has been working on this APT history support for the upstream code to benefit both Debian and Ubuntu.

Rather than needing to parse package/history log files manually and akin to functionality provided by Red Hat's DNF, a merge request is pending to add a built-in history command for APT. Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee Simon Johnsson has been working on this APT history support for the upstream code to benefit both Debian and Ubuntu. The history command feature is similar to DNF's and currently supports apt history-list to view all transactions in the APT history log and apt history-info to view detailed information on a specific transaction based on its ID.

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