Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 4.8
Severity: minor
I upgraded my unstable machine yesterday, and was shown the NEWS entry
for openssh:
openssh (1:10.1p1-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
So far so good.
Then I upgraded again just now which installed openssh 1:10.1p1-2, and
I was reshown the same NEWS entry for 1:101p1-1, except that the openssh
maintainer had fixed the distribution (and in the process also updated the
timestamp at the bottom):
openssh (1:10.1p1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
The text of the NEWS entry was identical (I saved both emails from
apt-listchanges and diffed them).
So it seems apt-listchanges is basing the decision to show at least in
part on the distribution and/or timestamp of the NEWS entry.
I'd expect apt-listchanges to record that it has shown the entry for
1:10.1p1-1 and not show it again even if there's been a modification to
it (especially when the body of the entry is unchanged, but maintainers
do sometimes fix typos in older NEWS/changelog entries too and I'd don't
want to be reshown an entry due to that).
I don't know how common this situation is - I noticed it this time
because I was upgrading today specifically to get a fix to
openssh-client so knew the version I had installed of this particular
package.
Cheers,
Olly
-- Package-specific info:
==> /etc/apt/listchanges.conf <==
[apt]
frontend=pager
email_address=root
confirm=0
save_seen=/var/lib/apt/listchanges
which=news
email_format=text
headers=false
reverse=false
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on:
ii apt 3.1.8
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.91
ii python3 3.13.7-1
ii python3-apt 3.0.0
ii python3-debconf 1.5.91
ii sensible-utils 0.0.26
ii ucf 3.0052
apt-listchanges recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt-listchanges suggests:
ii chromium [www-browser] 141.0.7390.65-1
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.98.2-2
ii firefox [www-browser] 143.0.3-1
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.58.0-1
ii lynx [www-browser] 2.9.2-1
ii mate-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 1.26.1-1+b1
ii python3-gi 3.50.0-7
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3+git20230121-2.1
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 402-1
ii zutty [x-terminal-emulator] 0.16.3.20250303+dfsg1-1
-- debconf information:
* apt-listchanges/email-address: root
* apt-listchanges/frontend: pager
* apt-listchanges/email-format: text
apt-listchanges/no-network: false
* apt-listchanges/save-seen: true
* apt-listchanges/confirm: false
* apt-listchanges/headers: false
* apt-listchanges/reverse: false
* apt-listchanges/which: news
