[Mageia-discuss] Unhelpful update changelogs

Anssi Hannula anssi at mageia.org
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


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