[Mageia-discuss] Unhelpful update changelogs

Wed Jan 4 18:04:04 CET 2012

+Hello,
+
+Not sure I'm missing something, but when there's a software upgrade
+available (either in rpmdrake, or in the update manager), say today's
+Pidgin:
+
+        Version : 2.10.1-1.mga1
+        Version actuellement installée : 2.10.0-1.1.mga1
+
+the changelog doesn't display specifically the changes for that update:
+
+       * dim. 11 déc. 2011 13:00:00 CET fwang <fwang> 2.10.1-1.mga1
+        
+        + Revision: 180554
+        - new version 2.10.1
+          fix CVE-2011-3594: UTF-8 validating incoming messages before
+         passing them to glib or libpurple Fix a memory leak when
+         admitting UTF-8 text with a non-UTF-8 primary encoding Fix
+         crashes and memory leaks when receiving malformed voice and
+         video requests 
+          + dmorgan <dmorgan>
+            - New version 2.10.0
+        
+        * mar. 29 mars 2011 14:00:00 CEST dams <dams> 2.7.11-1.mga1
+        [etc.]
+
+How am I supposed to know what changed between 2.10.0-1.1.mga1 (the
+installed version) and 2.10.1-1.mga1 (the proposed upgrade)? This
+happens with many/most packages, btw, not just Pidgin.
+
+(would be useful, wouldn't it ? :-))
+
+Thanks
+
+Antoine.
+
+
+