Package: apt Version: 2.6.1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
with the recent change of long changelogs being truncated automatically, and the full version of such truncated changelogs always being fetched by `apt[-get] changelog`, there is no way anymore to use `apt changelog` to just display "the changelog", if either - the repository metadata doesn't contain a `Changelogs` reference (many 3rd party repositories, but also stable-security and stable-updates!) - the "online" changelog does not exist (yet) this is the case for security updates as well, e.g. today's ghostscript update for bookworm (10.0.0-dfsg11+deb12u1): - before the update, it fails because the changelog for that version is not found on metadata.ftp-masters.debian.org (ghostscript is also shipped by the "main" repository that has metadata.f-m.d.o as Changelogs host) - after the update, it still fails for the same reason, even though at least the truncated changelog is available by virtue of the package being installed.. it would be nice if we could get back the old behaviour of "if fetching fails, display local changelog contents" (possibly with a hint/warning about that fact). it also seems to me like it is possible to confuse apt about where to fetch changelogs from, as per the above example (security upgrade fetches changelog from regular repo) - but since that requires control of the Release file, it's probably not much of an issue in practice. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.0 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.134 ii debian-archive-keyring 2023.3 ii gpgv 2.2.40-1.1 ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.6.1 ii libc6 2.36-9 ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14 ii libgnutls30 3.7.9-2 ii libseccomp2 2.5.4-1+b3 ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14 ii libsystemd0 252.6-1 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii ca-certificates 20230311 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> ii aptitude 0.8.13-5 ii dpkg-dev 1.21.22 ii gnupg 2.2.40-1.1 pn powermgmt-base <none> -- no debconf information