Snarfing changelogs from packages.debian.org

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

  I'd like to write some code to view a package's ChangeLog by downloading it
from the Debian servers.  Is it safe to depend upon the following URL working?
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=%s

  Also, are there any other goodies available besides that and the
copyright -- eg, viewing README.Debian, etc.

    Thanks,
  Daniel

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