The Debian package directory provides a simple API to search for package releases. For instance this query results can be accessed as JSON at https://sources.debian.net/api/src/libtry-tiny-perl/. Is there a similar API for http://packages.ubuntu.com/?
After upgrading to 15.04 I get a message with every new terminal to tell me how to use sudo:
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
I know that login messages can origin from motd or from the login shell executing several files but where does this message come from and how to get rid of it?