[Aptitude-devel] Bug#889924: Clarification

I just wanted to clarify some of the things that were said above. First of all, Devuan does not want to "extort" anything ;) Second, OmegaPhil approached us on IRC saying that Devuan "had" to set Origin, because having it blank was breaking "aptitude changelog", which "verifies" the source of the

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#889924: aptitude: obtaining changelogs

Hi, FWIW we added a `Changelogs` field to Debian's Release files so tools like apt or aptitude no longer have to hardcode the source URL for changelogs for every distribution. This was requested by the apt maintainers. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-dak/2015/08/msg00012.html Ansgar __

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#889924: [aptitude] Re: Bug#889924: [aptitude] Feature request - For changelog download command, can acceptable Origins be configurable? Devuan

Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.7-1 Just as a followup on this (despite opening the bug I didn't receive mail from it after the first response??) - src/cmdline/cmdline_changelog.cc:do_cmdline_changelog has the following comment: =

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#889924: aptitude: obtaining changelogs

On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 12:42:12PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > FWIW we added a `Changelogs` field to Debian's Release files so tools > like apt or aptitude no longer have to hardcode the source URL for > changelogs for every distribution. This was requested by the apt libapt has the pkgAcqCh