[Mageia-discuss] Unhelpful update changelogs

Wed Jan 4 23:33:04 CET 2012

Op woensdag 04 januari 2012 18:35:44 schreef Manuel Hiebel:
+> 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
+
+actually, isn't the changelog wrong too?, how can the user have 2.10.0.1.mga1? 
+if that doesn't exist, according to the changelog?
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