Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 2.85.13
Severity: normal
Hi
While working on patch for #730779, I tried to create a transitional
realpath binary package (inside coreutils source package) together
with debian/realpath.NEWS file. After a few tries to convince
apt-listchanges to display the NEWS file, I've noticed the following
lines in apt-listchanges source:
# For packages with non uniform binary versions wrt the source
# version, the version reported for the binary package is the
# source
# one, which lacks binNMU.
#
# This is why even if we've seen a package we may miss bits of
# changelog in some odd cases
if found.has_key(srcpackage) and \
apt_pkg.version_compare(srcversion, found[srcpackage]) = 0:
continue
The lines effectively ignore all changelog NEWS files from the
second, third, and so on binary package built from same source.
This is most probably done for performance purposes, but on the other
hand this behavior might be highly surprising for users.
I've just checked that there are a few source packages that already provide
different NEWS files for different binaries - please see the attached file
for a list. Even though this is less than per mill of all source packages,
I guess people who maintain such separate NEWS files would like apt-listchanges
to display them.
Regards,
robert
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on:
ii apt1.0.7
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.53
ii debianutils4.4
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.13
ii python 2.7.8-1
ii python-apt 0.9.3.9
ii python-support 1.0.15
ii ucf3.0030
apt-listchanges recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt-listchanges suggests:
ii aterm [x-terminal-emulator] 1.0.1-8+b1
ii chromium [www-browser] 35.0.1916.153-2
ii elinks [www-browser]0.12~pre6-5+b1
ii eterm [x-terminal-emulator] 0.9.6-1
ii evilvte [x-terminal-emulator] 0.5.1-1
ii iceweasel [www-browser] 31.0-3
ii links [www-browser] 2.8-2
ii links2 [www-browser]2.8-2
ii lxterminal [x-terminal-emulator]0.1.11-4
ii lynx-cur [www-browser] 2.8.9dev1-2
ii mrxvt [x-terminal-emulator] 0.5.4+utf8-1~
ii netrik [www-browser]1.16.1-1.1
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 2.11.1-1
ii pterm [x-terminal-emulator] 0.63-7
ii python-glade2 2.24.0-4
ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-4
ii roxterm-gtk3 [x-terminal-emulator] 2.9.3-1
ii rxvt [x-terminal-emulator] 1:2.7.10-6
ii sakura [x-terminal-emulator]3.1.4-1
ii termit [x-terminal-emulator]2.10.0-2-gb8280ed-1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-17
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 310-1
ii xvt [x-terminal-emulator] 2.1-20.1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listchanges changed [not included]
-- debconf information:
* apt-listchanges/save-seen: true
* apt-listchanges/email-address: root
* apt-listchanges/which: both
* apt-listchanges/confirm: false
* apt-listchanges/frontend: browser
pool/main/a/aolserver4/aolserver4_4.5.1-18.debian.tar.xz
debian/NEWS
debian/aolserver4-daemon.NEWS.debian
pool/main/b/bogofilter/bogofilter_1.2.4+dfsg1-3.debian.tar.xz
debian/bogofilter-bdb.NEWS
debian/bogofilter-common.NEWS
pool/main/c/cups/cups_1.7.5-1.debian.tar.xz
debian/cups.NEWS
debian/cups-daemon.NEWS
debian/cups-client.NEWS
pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.84-2.debian.tar.xz
debian/exim4-base.NEWS
debian/exim4-config.NEWS
debian/exim4-daemon-heavy.NEWS
debian/exim4-daemon-light.NEWS
pool/main/f/fltk1.3/fltk1.3_1.3.2-6.debian.tar.xz
debian/libfltk1.3-dev.NEWS
debian/fluid.NEWS
pool/main/g/git/git_2.1.0~rc2+next.20140808-1.debian.tar.xz
debian/gitweb.NEWS.Debian
debian/git.NEWS.Debian
pool/main/h/hplip/hplip_3.14.6-1.debian.tar.xz
debian/printer-driver-hpcups.NEWS
debian/hplip.NEWS
pool/main/i/isc-dhcp/isc-dhcp_4.3.1-1.debian.tar.xz
debian/isc-dhcp-server.NEWS
debian/isc-dhcp-client.NEWS
pool/main/k/kde4libs/kde4libs_4.14.0-1.debian.tar.xz
debian/NEWS
debian/kdelibs5-data.NEWS
debian/kdelibs5.NEWS
pool/main/libp/libpam-krb5/libpam-krb5_4.6-3.debian.tar.xz
debian/libpam-krb5.NEWS
debian/libpam-heimdal.NEWS
pool/main/libr/libreoffice/libreoffice_4.3.1-1.debian.tar.xz
debian/python3-uno.NEWS
debian/libreoffice-base.NEWS
