[Mageia-discuss] Unhelpful update changelogs

[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