Hi Jonathan,
Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> OK, this will be fixed in 4.1.
Yay, thanks!
> Description of the bug and fix, copied from the commit message:
>
> Bug:
> * Main package a has both changelog and NEWS.
> * Subpackage a-sub has identical changelog but no NEWS.
> * Both a and a-sub version 1 are installed but not in database.
> * apt goes to upgrade a and a-sub to version 2.
> * apt-listchanges parses a-sub first, records installed entries under
> package a instead of a-sub, since we were using the package name in
> the changelog entry to determine where in the seen DB to record
> entries.
Ouch, that seemed rather non-trivial to figure out and reproduce.
> I added a unit test for this case which now passes, and all other unit tests
> continue to pass with the change described above.
Perfect!
> Note that the database is entirely replaced when upgraded from pre-4.0 to
> 4.x because its format and what we're storing in it are completely
> different.
Ok, wasn't sure how relevant its content is. Just tried to help. :-)
> > # EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT:
> > 'apt-listchanges==3.27','console_scripts','apt-listchanges'
>
> Thanks, fixed this as well.
Great!
Regards, Axel
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