[Mageia-discuss] Unhelpful update changelogs

Claire Robinson eeeemail at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 18:48:36 CET 2012


On 04/01/12 17:04, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>

There is a more detailed advisory written for each update but it 
currently isn't shown in MageiaUpdate.

You can subscribe to the Updates Announce mailing list

updates-announce at ml.mageia.org

here

https://ml.mageia.org/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi/info/updates-announce

Or maybe even join one of the teams and become involved in the updates 
process as it happens - recommended :D (QA Team)

An example from the updates-announce ML

---------------
This update addresses the following CVE:

- CVE-2011-3594: UTF-8 validating incoming messages before passing them
   to glib or libpurple


other fixes in this release:

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


https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3894
---------------------

Claire


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