I've installed apt by rpm (or from a task repo that has no changelogs in pkglist). The shown changelog is empty: $ rpm -q apt apt-0.5.15lorg2-alt90.p10.1.x86_64 $ apt-get changelog apt Чтение списков пакетов... Завершено Построение дерева зависимостей... Завершено Changelog for apt: $ In apt, some other data is merged from pkglist and from rpm db. The same could be done for the changelogs of installed packages. (And for file lists, and let's have a look what else.) And it might be not a good idea to take extra space in the memory for this (in the package cache): rpm db can always be queried for this extra info (like changelogs, files, descriptions -- not needed for dependency resolution).
