[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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