[Mageia-discuss] Unhelpful update changelogs

[Maarten Vanraes]

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?