[Mageia-discuss] Unhelpful update changelogs

Wed Jan 4 18:35:44 CET 2012

Le mercredi 04 janvier 2012 à 18:04 +0100, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
+> 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.
+> 
+Yep there is a bug opened against the show of the advisory in rpmdrake and 
+one open for the changelog (and now closed iirc). :s
+As a workaround you can use the ml and/or the rss feed.
+https://ml.mageia.org/l/info/updates-announce
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