Package: synaptic Version: 0.63 Severity: normal Synaptic tries to retrieve the changelog from packages.debian.org. However that is often out of date: for example a package is already available on the mirrors, but the changelog is only available after several days.
For example the changelog for gedit 2.28.3-1: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.28.3-1/changelog Is still not available as of Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:51:02 +0200 It would be probably better for synaptic to retrieve the changelog from packages.qa.debian.org directly: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gedit/news/20091220T031744Z.html If you parse the Changes: field you get the changelog for the last release. You could find all the p.a.q.d.o for all versions between the installed version, and the newly available package, and concatenate their changes. Alternatively a script could extract the changelog and upload it to p.d.o. just after the package is uploaded to the mirrors. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.2 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages synaptic depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4 0.7.25 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii apt-utils [libapt-inst-libc 0.7.25 APT utility programs ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.11-1 default fallback theme for FreeDes ii libatk1.0-0 1.28.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-6 GCC support library ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.3-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.5-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libvte9 1:0.22.5-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ ii libx11-6 2:1.3.2-1 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.7.6.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii rarian-compat [scrollkeeper 0.8.1-4 Documentation meta-data library (c ii scrollkeeper 0.8.1-4 Transitional package for scrollkee Versions of packages synaptic recommends: ii deborphan 1.7.28 program that can find unused packa ii gksu 2.0.2-2+b1 graphical frontend to su ii kdebase-bin 4:4.3.4-1 core binaries for the KDE 4 base m ii libgnome2-perl 1.042-2 Perl interface to the GNOME librar ii menu 2.1.42 generates programs menu for all me Versions of packages synaptic suggests: ii dwww 1.11.1 Read all on-line documentation wit -- no debconf information -- debsums errors found: prelink: /usr/sbin/synaptic: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking debsums: changed file /usr/sbin/synaptic (from synaptic package) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
