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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Unhelpful update changelogs</H1>
<B>Anssi Hannula</B>
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<I>Thu Jan 5 06:34:28 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 05.01.2012 00:33, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
><i> Op woensdag 04 januari 2012 18:35:44 schreef Manuel Hiebel:
</I>>><i> Le mercredi 04 janvier 2012 à 18:04 +0100, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
</I>>>><i> Hello,
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Not sure I'm missing something, but when there's a software upgrade
</I>>>><i> available (either in rpmdrake, or in the update manager), say today's
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Pidgin:
</I>>>><i> Version : 2.10.1-1.mga1
</I>>>><i> Version actuellement installée : 2.10.0-1.1.mga1
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> the changelog doesn't display specifically the changes for that update:
</I>>>><i> * dim. 11 déc. 2011 13:00:00 CET fwang <fwang> 2.10.1-1.mga1
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> + Revision: 180554
</I>>>><i> - new version 2.10.1
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> fix CVE-2011-3594: UTF-8 validating incoming messages before
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> passing them to glib or libpurple Fix a memory leak when
</I>>>><i> admitting UTF-8 text with a non-UTF-8 primary encoding Fix
</I>>>><i> crashes and memory leaks when receiving malformed voice and
</I>>>><i> video requests
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> + dmorgan <dmorgan>
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> - New version 2.10.0
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> * mar. 29 mars 2011 14:00:00 CEST dams <dams> 2.7.11-1.mga1
</I>>>><i> [etc.]
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> How am I supposed to know what changed between 2.10.0-1.1.mga1 (the
</I>>>><i> installed version) and 2.10.1-1.mga1 (the proposed upgrade)? This
</I>>>><i> happens with many/most packages, btw, not just Pidgin.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> (would be useful, wouldn't it ? :-))
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Thanks
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Antoine.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Yep there is a bug opened against the show of the advisory in rpmdrake and
</I>>><i> one open for the changelog (and now closed iirc). :s
</I>>><i> As a workaround you can use the ml and/or the rss feed.
</I>>><i> <A HREF="https://ml.mageia.org/l/info/updates-announce">https://ml.mageia.org/l/info/updates-announce</A>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> actually, isn't the changelog wrong too?, how can the user have 2.10.0.1.mga1?
</I>><i> if that doesn't exist, according to the changelog?
</I>
Yes, submissions to stable have broken changelogs:
<A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3666">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3666</A>
(this was/is broken in mdv contrib as well)
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Anssi Hannula
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