And I can reliably observe the issue in a focal VM where I installed the
chromium-browser package from bionic. Update-manager offers the update
to the newer version in focal, and the changelog textbox displays the
entire changelog since the first version of the package.
This might be caused by the versioning scheme used to update chromium in
stable releases. But it's really a bug in update-manager.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1132472
Title:
Update-manager list earlier changes for certain packages before the
relevant change for the update in question
Status in boost-defaults package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Steps to reproduce:
1. Have an old version of some boost package when a newer version is
available.
2. Open update-manager, select the boost package and look at the "Changes"
tab.
Expected result:
The tab should contain which version I have currently installed, which
version is available, and a section from the changelog summarizing the changes
between those two versions.
Actual result:
While the boost packages have this, it is far down below a series of older
changelog entries. All of these are for versions older than the one currently
installed and as such are already included in the version I have. Furthermore
they push down the "currently installed/available version" part which should
always be listed at the top.
I am not sure why this happens, and why it only happens with boost
packages. I have seen this before with a previous boost update
(unfortunately I failed to file a bug before updating), but not in any
other packages.
$ apt-cache policy libboost-date-time1.49.0
libboost-date-time1.49.0:
Installed: 1.49.0-3.1ubuntu1.1
Candidate: 1.49.0-3.1ubuntu1.2
Version table:
1.49.0-3.1ubuntu1.2 0
500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main i386
Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-security/main i386
Packages
*** 1.49.0-3.1ubuntu1.1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.49.0-3.1ubuntu1 0
500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages
With the package above installed, this issue should be easy to
reproduce. I have also attached the content of the "Changes" tab in
update-manager.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.174.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 24 15:04:06 2013
GsettingsChanges:
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1361714262'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'744'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'959'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-20 (127 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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