On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:48:04AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > On 2006-03-08 Ross Boylan wrote: > > The changelog for 5.0.8-18 refers to NEWS.Debian, but no news was > > displayed by apt-listchanges, and I can't find the NEWS file in the > > installed packages. > > Please send me the output of "debconf-show apt-listchanges"
* apt-listchanges/confirm: true * apt-listchanges/email-address: root * apt-listchanges/which: both * apt-listchanges/frontend: text * apt-listchanges/overwrite_etc_apt_listchanges_conf: true * apt-listchanges/save-seen: true > > > I suspect the problem is that the NEWS file is associated with only > > some of the binary packages. In particular, my install held > > mysql-client and mysql-server at their previous version while > > upgrading libmysqlclient15 and mysql-common. > Indeed only with mysql-server-5.0 because it's irrelevant for the > > others. This was exactly the problem in the other case I mentioned in my original report. The NEWS only made sense for some of the binary packages. However, the infrastructure, or at least apt-listchanges, seems to require it to be present in all binary packages. This makes a certain sense, since they all share the same changelog.Debian. In the minimal sense that other binary packages have the changelog, and the changelog refers to NEWS.Debian, it is "relevant" to the others, e.g., /usr/share/doc/mysql-common/changelog.Debian.gz on my current system refers to NEWS.Debian, but it's nowhere to be found. > You probably still use mysql-server-4.1, right? Yes. >You explicitly have > to say "apt-get install mysql-server-5.0" to get the new version. It looks as if install mysql-server will do it too. > Then you will probably also see the NEWS file. It will also be available > as /usr/share/doc/mysql-server-5.0/NEWS.Debian. > After writing all the preceding, including the reference to "my current system," I forced the upgrade of mysql-server, which pulled in mysql-server-5.0 as a dependency. I see the NEWS.Debian file. However, it was not displayed by apt-listchanges. I'm also a little surprised the NEWS.Debian file shows version (5.0.18-9), since -8 first mentioned it. It is probably relevant that in between my initial submission of this bug report and forcing the upgrade I did another dist-upgrade that bumped mysql-common to -9. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
