And I can reliably observe the issue in a focal VM where I installed the
chromium-browser package from bionic. Update-manager offers the update
to the newer version in focal, and the changelog textbox displays the
entire changelog since the first version of the package.
This might be caused by the
This appears to be a bug in update-manager, where it fails to match the
currently installed version against the changelog, and consequently
doesn't truncate the changelog where it should, displaying the entire
changelog history. I am not familiar with update-manager's code, but the
code in question
Happened again with distro-info-data on Ubuntu 20.04.
$ apt policy distro-info-data
distro-info-data:
Installert: 0.43ubuntu1.2
Kandidat: 0.43ubuntu1.4
Versjonstabell:
0.43ubuntu1.4 500
500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64
Packages
500 htt
I have seen this a couple of more times over the years, but I recently
caught the same issue with chromium-browser. This is on 20.04, according
to `apt policy` the changes are
$ apt policy chromium-browser
chromium-browser:
Installert: 83.0.4103.61-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Kandidat: 83.0.4103.97-0ub
** Summary changed:
- Update-manager list earlier changes for boost packages before the relevant
change for the update in question
+ Update-manager list earlier changes for certain packages before the relevant
change for the update in question
** Also affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
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