retitle 565804 apt-listchanges cannot deal with NEWS not under /usr/share/doc/$pkg severity 565804 minor thanks
The problem here, is that NEWS is a symlink to /usr/share/aptitude/NEWS. apt-lischanges works fine when it's a symlink to /usr/share/doc/$anotherpkg/NEWS but not when it's a symlink to a non standards NEWS.gz This is a problem with aptitude here which puts the NEWS file in an awkward place. This problem is annoying to solve, and won't probably for a while. It's easier if packages don't do what aptitude does. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 06:29:57AM +0800, [email protected] wrote: > Package: apt-listchanges > Version: 2.84 > X-debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > Severity: wishlist > > >>>>> "r" == root writes: > r> --- Changes for aptitude (aptitude aptitude-doc-en) --- > r> aptitude (0.6.1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low > r> * Add a NEWS entry warning about the syntax break with "full-upgrade" to > r> make its behavior saner and consistent with safe-upgrade. > r> -- Daniel Burrows <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:43:01 -0800 > Odd, I didn't get any mail of the News, I only got the changes mail. > Hmmm, the NEWS.Debian.gz file is a new file, > > $ set $(ls -r /var/cache/apt/archives/aptitude_*|sed 2q) > $ for i do echo $i:; dpkg-deb -c $i|grep NEWS; done > /var/cache/apt/archives/aptitude_0.6.1.4-1_i386.deb: > -rw-r--r-- root/root 551 2010-01-18 15:35 > ./usr/share/doc/aptitude/NEWS.Debian.gz > -rw-r--r-- root/root 221898 2010-01-18 16:02 ./usr/share/aptitude/NEWS > lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2010-01-18 16:02 ./usr/share/doc/aptitude/NEWS > -> ../../aptitude/NEWS > /var/cache/apt/archives/aptitude_0.6.1.3-3_i386.deb: > -rw-r--r-- root/root 219488 2009-11-20 23:49 ./usr/share/aptitude/NEWS > lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2009-11-20 23:50 ./usr/share/doc/aptitude/NEWS > -> ../../aptitude/NEWS > > Maybe there is a bug causing News to be skipped on first creation? > > -- debconf information: > apt-listchanges/confirm: false > * apt-listchanges/email-address: root > * apt-listchanges/which: both > * apt-listchanges/frontend: mail > * apt-listchanges/save-seen: true > > > -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [email protected] OOO http://www.madism.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
