Package: apt-listchanges

Version: 3.22

I expect the program to show, not or not only a changelog included with the Debian package of the software, but the changelog that the authors of the software have included (if any). I call the later changelog the 'upstream changelog'. I initiated an upgrade of a package that I know includes an upstream changelog. Yet, apt-listchanges did not show that changelog. For discussion, please see here, which is a page on the bugtracker for the software that was inside the package: https://github.com/Yubico/yubikey-manager/issues/396

I have little experience of package management. So what I have said may contain mistakes. I am confident though that apt-listchanges is failing to show an important changelog in this case; and so far as I can tell, the case generalises.

I note also that while 3.22 is not the most recent edition of apt-listchanges, it is the most recent version that I can easily test, and I have little reason to think that the infelicity in question has been fixed. However, it occurs to me that possibly this infelicity - as I deem it to be - is by design.

I am using Linux Mint 20.1 x64 Cinnamon. Yet, since apt-listchanges appears to be a Debian project, I file this report with you.

PS: The last time that I reported a bug to Debian, my email address ended up on the open Internet, and I got spam. I would like this not to happen this time.

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