Package: python3-apt Version: 2.6.0ubuntu1 Severity: normal My use case of apt.package.Package.get_changelog needs to know whether a changelog failed to download because it is not available on the server vs. it failed because of a connectivity issue with the server. Right now the function completely masks that information, simply returning a string in both cases. I can't try to parse the string to extract the information because it's not always explicit and because it's internationalized so that's a whole can of worms.
I know you probably can't change the default behavior of the get_changelog function because too many things depend on it, but two other options would be to (a) add a lower-level function that just tries to do the download and lets exceptions bubble up instead of catching them and turning them into strings, or (b) add a keyword argument to get_changelog which enables bubbling up exceptions instead of converting them to strings. Thank you, Jonathan Kamens
