[Mageia-discuss] Unhelpful update changelogs

Thu Jan 5 06:34:28 CET 2012

On 05.01.2012 00:33, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+> 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?
+
+Yes, submissions to stable have broken changelogs:
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3666
+
+(this was/is broken in mdv contrib as well)
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+