#!/bin/bash
# Reports the last date of a package update
# Similar to the first entry of the "Latest News" panel of http://packages.qa.debian.org
# Thanks to the contributors on http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2006/06/msg00019.html

PACKAGE=$1
SECTION="main"

echo -n "$PACKAGE "

SPACKAGE=$(apt-cache show $PACKAGE | grep ^Source: | awk '{print $2}')
[ ${SPACKAGE:+set} ] && { echo -n "SRC:$SPACKAGE "; PACKAGE=$SPACKAGE; }

ALTSECTION=$(apt-cache show $PACKAGE 2> /dev/null | grep ^Section: | awk '{print $2}')
[[ $(echo $ALTSECTION | grep -c "/") != "0" ]] && { ALTSECTION=$(echo $ALTSECTION | awk -F/ '{print $1}'); } || ALTSECTION=""

[ ${ALTSECTION:+set} ] && { echo -n "SEC:$ALTSECTION "; SECTION=$ALTSECTION; }

echo http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/$SECTION/${PACKAGE::1}/${PACKAGE}/current/changelog.txt
CHANGELOG="$(wget -O- -q http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/$SECTION/${PACKAGE::1}/${PACKAGE}/current/changelog.txt)"

#echo $?

[ ${CHANGELOG:+set} ] && echo "$CHANGELOG" | dpkg-parsechangelog -l- | grep '^Date' #| sed 's/Date: /Last modification: /'