Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.debian.bugs.dist > #1171210

Bug#1053696: Upgrading Python packages showed numerous ancient changelog entries

From Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1053696: Upgrading Python packages showed numerous ancient changelog entries
Date 2023-10-09 05:10 +0200
Message-ID <HmOOB-ewgm-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <HmK8h-etra-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <HmObU-evNi-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <HmK8h-etra-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <HmObU-evNi-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw


[Multipart message — attachments visible in raw view] - view raw

You don't have to look into it anymore, I know what's happening. ;-)

Been working on it for a couple of hours. Will have an update in the 
morning, no time to write it up now.

Thanks for the report!

jik

On 10/8/23 22:23, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Package: apt-listchanges
> Version: 4.0
> Followup-For: Bug #1053696
> X-Debbugs-Cc:rra@debian.org
>
> Same thing happened with the following upgrades:
>
> Unpacking gcc-12 (12.3.0-10) over (12.3.0-9) ...
> Unpacking libgcc-12-dev:amd64 (12.3.0-10) over (12.3.0-9) ...
> Unpacking cpp-12 (12.3.0-10) over (12.3.0-9) ...
> Unpacking gcc-12-base:amd64 (12.3.0-10) over (12.3.0-9) ...
>
> apt-listchanges displayed what I think is the entire gcc changelog,
> including the entries for 12.3.0-9 which were already installed.
>
> It's not happening with every package, though. I'm not sure yet what the
> common pattern is, unless it's packages that have multiple package names
> in their changelog.
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> ==> /etc/apt/listchanges.conf <==
> [apt]
> frontend=pager
> email_address=none
> confirm=0
> save_seen=/var/lib/apt/listchanges
> which=both
> no_network=false
> headers=false
> reverse=false
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: trixie/sid
>    APT prefers unstable
>    APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on:
> ii  apt                    2.7.6
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.82
> ii  python3                3.11.4-5+b1
> ii  python3-apt            2.6.0
> ii  python3-debconf        1.5.82
> ii  sensible-utils         0.0.20
> ii  ucf                    3.0043+nmu1
>
> apt-listchanges recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages apt-listchanges suggests:
> ii  chromium [www-browser]              117.0.5938.149-1
> ii  firefox [www-browser]               118.0-1+b1
> ii  google-chrome-stable [www-browser]  117.0.5938.149-1
> ii  links [www-browser]                 2.29-1+b1
> ii  lynx [www-browser]                  2.9.0dev.12-1
> ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]      3.8.2-1
> ii  python3-gi                          3.46.0-1
> ii  w3m [www-browser]                   0.5.3+git20230121-2
> ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]         385-1
>
> -- debconf information:
> * apt-listchanges/confirm: false
> * apt-listchanges/headers: false
> * apt-listchanges/which: both
> * apt-listchanges/email-address:
> * apt-listchanges/reverse: false
> * apt-listchanges/save-seen: true
> * apt-listchanges/frontend: pager
> * apt-listchanges/no-network: false
>    apt-listchanges/email-format: text
>

Back to linux.debian.bugs.dist | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

Bug#1053696: Upgrading Python packages showed numerous ancient changelog entries Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2023-10-09 00:10 +0200
  Bug#1053696: Upgrading Python packages showed numerous ancient changelog entries Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2023-10-09 04:30 +0200
    Bug#1053696: Upgrading Python packages showed numerous ancient changelog entries Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> - 2023-10-09 05:10 +0200
  Bug#1053696: Upgrading Python packages showed numerous ancient changelog entries Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> - 2023-10-09 17:40 +0200
    Bug#1053696: Upgrading Python packages showed numerous ancient changelog entries Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2023-10-09 18:20 +0200

csiph-web