Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.9-2 Severity: minor Hi,
after a change of my sources.list (it happens automatically on my system as soon as my network location changes via a guessnet script) aptitude is in a state where it does not no about any package from external repositories until I run aptitude update. Thats normal, because it has always been this way. But if I run aptitude changelog lintian for example in this state, then it says: E: lintian is not an official Debian package, cannot display its changelog. Despite the fact about aptitudes package list state this message is just stating untrue thing and is therefore irritating and misleading. I think the algorithm to detect weither a package is an official Debian package that seems to depend on weither it finds a changelog or not is inappropriate. My suggestion is to check weither any changelog is known and if not say something like "No changelog locations in cache. Please run aptitude update." Thanks and best Regards Patrick -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6 0.7.9 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget0 0.5.5-4 high-level terminal interface libr ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-4 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6+20071124-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-1 parse Debian changelogs and output -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
