Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 apt-listchanges
Control: severity -2 important
Control: retitle -2 apt-listchanges doesn't show NEWS entries

On Sun, 19 May 2019 13:55:39 +0200 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote:
> Am 19.05.19 um 13:43 schrieb Guido Günther:
> 
> > On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 01:20:05PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> >> https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/commit/e3772a013721083a740ab9dedbf060cf5b3c3709
> >> but either I made a mistake or apt-listchanges is buggy, since on none
> >> of my systems this NEWS entry was shown.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> > 
> > I can at least confirm that I didn't see the new entry when upgrading
> > udev. The NEWS entry looks correct though and apt-listchanges seems to
> > think it showed it:
> > 
> > # apt-listchanges --profile=apt --dump-seen | grep systemd
> > libconfig-model-systemd-perl 0.239.1-1
> > systemd 241-4
> > 
> 
> I wonder if apt-listchanges gets confused, if a src package ships
> multiple (different) NEWS files in different binary packages.
> 
> I just made a dist-upgrade of a test VM from stretch to buster, and
> noticed that quite a few NEWS entries were missing / not shown.
> E.g. the 2.29.2-3 news entry for the "mount" package (built from
> src:util-linux) was missing as well. So seems to a general problem.
> 
> Looks like a rather important bug in apt-listchanges to me.


Cloning and re-assigning the bug, so this can be investigated on the
apt-listchanges side. Seems something worthwile to fix.

Regards,
Michael

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