Bug#824841: libgtk-3-0: Properly include upstream changelog

[Michael Biebl]

Am 06.09.2016 um 16:17 schrieb Aaron M. Ucko:
> Source: gtk+3.0
> Followup-For: Bug #824841
> 
> It looks like this changelog is now present, and adding 3.6M to each
> binary package (some of which had been quite small).  Could you please
> arrange to avoid this duplication?

The ChangeLog is autogenerated, basically a git log dump.

tbh, I don't find that particularly helpful.
Maybe you can convince upstream to cut-off the log, say only include the
changes between major versions, like from 3.x..3.x+1


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Bug#824841: libgtk-3-0: Properly include upstream changelog

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Source: gtk+3.0
Followup-For: Bug #824841

It looks like this changelog is now present, and adding 3.6M to each
binary package (some of which had been quite small).  Could you please
arrange to avoid this duplication?

Thanks!

Bug#824841: libgtk-3-0: Properly include upstream changelog

[Ximin Luo]

Yes, that was a typo. Fortunately my bug subject line was correct and also I 
referred to the upstream changelog by the correct filename.

Could you add this address

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+

in addition to the current "fake" upstream changelog, please?

I also strongly recommend adding the actual upstream git log into 
debian/upstream/changelog - for example like how many xul-ext-* packages do. 
Especially since upstream git is almost 300MiB in size - it would save users 
and volunteers a great deal of time if we could just read it directly, instead 
of needing a fast and stable internet connection, and waiting for a few 
minutes. Then there is the extra step of figuring out which git tag to use, to 
avoid seeing commits not relevant to the currently-installed version. All of 
these steps do not make for a pleasant debugging experience especially when my 
UI is fucked.

X

D. B.:
> You asked for "the upstream bug [log, presumably]", so it was reasonable
> for people to presume you wanted a list of bugfixes.
> 
> upstream is git.gnome.org and browse for gtk+
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Ximin Luo  wrote:
> 
>> Michael Biebl:
>>> Am 20.05.2016 um 12:15 schrieb Ximin Luo:
 Package: libgtk-3-0
 Version: 3.20.4-1
 Severity: important

 Dear Maintainer,

 Whilst investigating a bug involving GTK themes, I found that the
>> contents of
 the upstream bug is useless:

 $ zcat /usr/share/doc/libgtk-3-0/changelog.gz
 A git checkout and git-log is required to generate this file

 Please fix this - if necessary by generating the changelog from git and
 repacking the Debian "orig" tarball to include this generated version.

 Otherwise it makes bug tracking much harder.
>>>
>>> All bugs are mentioned in the NEWS file.
>>> For a complete and more detailed list, a git checkout is much, much
>>> better anyway.
>>>
>>
>> The NEWS file contains a list of bugs that have just been fixed, but
>> doesn't contain details of major changes that might have resulted in new
>> bugs. Obviously the latter is what I'm interested in - I wouldn't be trying
>> to read about bugs that were just fixed, since I hopefully wouldn't be
>> experiencing them in the first place.
>>
>> Where is the upstream git? It would be helpful to include the address of
>> this repository in changelog.gz, as well as the actual commands I need to
>> run (including its dependencies) to generate it. Saving people time really
>> helps to avoid user frustration, especially if upstream is prone to making
>> backward-incompatible changes that break everything.
>>
>> X
>>
>> --
>> GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35
>> GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE
>> git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
>>
>>
> 


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git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git

Bug#824841: libgtk-3-0: Properly include upstream changelog

[D. B.]

You asked for "the upstream bug [log, presumably]", so it was reasonable
for people to presume you wanted a list of bugfixes.

upstream is git.gnome.org and browse for gtk+



On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Ximin Luo  wrote:

> Michael Biebl:
> > Am 20.05.2016 um 12:15 schrieb Ximin Luo:
> >> Package: libgtk-3-0
> >> Version: 3.20.4-1
> >> Severity: important
> >>
> >> Dear Maintainer,
> >>
> >> Whilst investigating a bug involving GTK themes, I found that the
> contents of
> >> the upstream bug is useless:
> >>
> >> $ zcat /usr/share/doc/libgtk-3-0/changelog.gz
> >> A git checkout and git-log is required to generate this file
> >>
> >> Please fix this - if necessary by generating the changelog from git and
> >> repacking the Debian "orig" tarball to include this generated version.
> >>
> >> Otherwise it makes bug tracking much harder.
> >
> > All bugs are mentioned in the NEWS file.
> > For a complete and more detailed list, a git checkout is much, much
> > better anyway.
> >
>
> The NEWS file contains a list of bugs that have just been fixed, but
> doesn't contain details of major changes that might have resulted in new
> bugs. Obviously the latter is what I'm interested in - I wouldn't be trying
> to read about bugs that were just fixed, since I hopefully wouldn't be
> experiencing them in the first place.
>
> Where is the upstream git? It would be helpful to include the address of
> this repository in changelog.gz, as well as the actual commands I need to
> run (including its dependencies) to generate it. Saving people time really
> helps to avoid user frustration, especially if upstream is prone to making
> backward-incompatible changes that break everything.
>
> X
>
> --
> GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35
> GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE
> git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
>
>

Bug#824841: libgtk-3-0: Properly include upstream changelog

[Ximin Luo]

Michael Biebl:
> Am 20.05.2016 um 12:15 schrieb Ximin Luo:
>> Package: libgtk-3-0
>> Version: 3.20.4-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> Whilst investigating a bug involving GTK themes, I found that the contents of
>> the upstream bug is useless:
>>
>> $ zcat /usr/share/doc/libgtk-3-0/changelog.gz 
>> A git checkout and git-log is required to generate this file
>>
>> Please fix this - if necessary by generating the changelog from git and
>> repacking the Debian "orig" tarball to include this generated version.
>>
>> Otherwise it makes bug tracking much harder.
> 
> All bugs are mentioned in the NEWS file.
> For a complete and more detailed list, a git checkout is much, much
> better anyway.
> 

The NEWS file contains a list of bugs that have just been fixed, but doesn't 
contain details of major changes that might have resulted in new bugs. 
Obviously the latter is what I'm interested in - I wouldn't be trying to read 
about bugs that were just fixed, since I hopefully wouldn't be experiencing 
them in the first place.

Where is the upstream git? It would be helpful to include the address of this 
repository in changelog.gz, as well as the actual commands I need to run 
(including its dependencies) to generate it. Saving people time really helps to 
avoid user frustration, especially if upstream is prone to making 
backward-incompatible changes that break everything.

X

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GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35
GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE
git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git

Bug#824841: libgtk-3-0: Properly include upstream changelog

[Michael Biebl]

Am 20.05.2016 um 12:15 schrieb Ximin Luo:
> Package: libgtk-3-0
> Version: 3.20.4-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Whilst investigating a bug involving GTK themes, I found that the contents of
> the upstream bug is useless:
> 
> $ zcat /usr/share/doc/libgtk-3-0/changelog.gz 
> A git checkout and git-log is required to generate this file
> 
> Please fix this - if necessary by generating the changelog from git and
> repacking the Debian "orig" tarball to include this generated version.
> 
> Otherwise it makes bug tracking much harder.

All bugs are mentioned in the NEWS file.
For a complete and more detailed list, a git checkout is much, much
better anyway.



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Bug#824841: libgtk-3-0: Properly include upstream changelog

[Ximin Luo]

Package: libgtk-3-0
Version: 3.20.4-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Whilst investigating a bug involving GTK themes, I found that the contents of
the upstream bug is useless:

$ zcat /usr/share/doc/libgtk-3-0/changelog.gz 
A git checkout and git-log is required to generate this file

Please fix this - if necessary by generating the changelog from git and
repacking the Debian "orig" tarball to include this generated version.

Otherwise it makes bug tracking much harder.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libgtk-3-0 depends on:
ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0  2.18.1-3
ii  libatk1.0-0 2.20.0-1
ii  libc6   2.22-7
ii  libcairo-gobject2   1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libcairo2   1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libcolord2  1.3.2-1
ii  libcups22.1.3-5
ii  libepoxy0   1.3.1-1
ii  libfontconfig1  2.11.0-6.4
ii  libfreetype62.6.3-3+b1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.34.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-02.48.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-common 3.20.4-1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0  1.2.0-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0  1.40.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.1-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0   1.40.1-1
ii  librest-0.7-0   0.7.93-1
ii  libsoup2.4-12.52.2-1
ii  libwayland-client0  1.10.0-2
ii  libwayland-cursor0  1.10.0-2
ii  libwayland-egl1-mesa [libwayland-egl1]  11.1.3-1
ii  libx11-62:1.6.3-1
ii  libxcomposite1  1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii  libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext62:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3  1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii  libxi6  2:1.7.6-1
ii  libxinerama12:1.1.3-1+b1
ii  libxkbcommon0   0.5.0-1
ii  libxml2 2.9.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libxrandr2  2:1.5.0-1
ii  shared-mime-info1.5-2

Versions of packages libgtk-3-0 recommends:
ii  libgtk-3-bin  3.18.9-1

Versions of packages libgtk-3-0 suggests:
ii  gvfs 1.28.1-1
ii  librsvg2-common  2.40.15-1

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