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I'm running Ubuntu and I have a deb file installed. I've made deb packages before, so I know there is a debian changelog (debchange). Is there anyway to see the debian changelog for any package that I have installed? Assume I don't have access to the deb source file for this package, and I don't have the deb file available. I am able to install extra packages if needed.

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apt-listchanges is a nice package to have around, but without having a deb file around your best bet most probably is to read the Debian changelog from /usr/share/doc/somepackage/changelog.Debian.gz.

Make it an alias with

alias debchange="zless /usr/share/doc/$0/changelog.Debian.gz

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