Hi Mike, On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 03:07:26AM -0700, Mike Gerow wrote: > Hi folks, this bug is almost 8 (!) years old. I've started looking into the > implementation to see if I can thro a patch together but wanted to make sure > this is something the aptitude team would still want.
Ideally, this would be implemented in libapt directly. It nowadays sports a pkgAcqChangelog which deals with most of the complexity around changelogs including the constructing the URI (as different archives have different storage places and such) [which from a casual look seem not to be used by aptitude which constructs the URI on its own (for Debian only)]. A good way to deal with this hence might perhaps be to fully adopt pkgAcqChangelog in aptitude, mostly copy pkgAcqChangelog and paste as pkgAcqCopyright in libapt (src:apt) and copy&paste the changelog-code in aptitude to deal with copyright [Bonuspoints if abstraction is used instead of copy&paste]. I can't speak for the aptitude team of course, but at least for the apt team and I would be happy to help on the apt side. If you are interested feel free to ask me (DonKult), us ([email protected]) and/or on IRC (#debian-apt – where apt & aptitude people hang out together)! Best regards David Kalnischkies
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