Control: merge 1023269 -1
On 2023-03-08 15:19 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 13.11.4
> Severity: normal
>
> I wanted to see the earlier changelog for debconf, and saw its changelog
> ends with:
>
> -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Sat, 03 Aug 2019 11:51:13 +0100
>
> # Older entries have been removed from this changelog.
> # To read the complete changelog use `apt changelog debconf`.
>
> So I followed those instructions to see the rest:
>
> joey@darkstar:~>apt changelog debconf| tail -n5
>
> WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in
> scripts.
>
> -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Sat, 03 Aug 2019 11:51:13 +0100
>
> # Older entries have been removed from this changelog.
> # To read the complete changelog use `apt changelog debconf`.
> Fetched 5,388 B in 0s (0 B/s)
>
> Oops, that didn't work! Pulling the source package, there are 10 years
> of changelog entries that are not included.
>
> Perhaps this is really a bug in apt or some debian infrastructure, I
> don't know.
It is #1024457 which has recently been fixed in apt 2.6.0. With older
apt versions, use the option Acquire::Changelogs::AlwaysOnline=true. In
any case you have to be online so that apt can fetch the changelog from
metadata.ftp-master.debian.org.
Cheers,
Sven
