So, Russ sent me his apt-listchanges database and I took a lot at it and
it was very messed up.
There was a bug in 4.1 which was uncovered and fixed a couple of days
ago as a result of Alexandre Detiste's push to add typing hints to the
program. This bug would have caused the type of corruption that I saw in
Russ's database, so I'm pretty sure it will go away in 4.2.
In addition, the structure of the database has been revamped in 4.2 so
when upgrading to 4.1 to 4.2 the program is going to throw away the old
database and start from scratch, which will clear out the corruption.
In addition, to facilitate debugging issues like this in the future,
I've added new state snapshotting functionality to the program which
will only be deployed in experimental releases. Here's
<https://salsa.debian.org/debian/apt-listchanges/-/commit/7ebbb11e79ebbb0f2ebd84651dd58f932c2129b4>
the commit if you're curious. Here's
<https://salsa.debian.org/debian/apt-listchanges/-/commit/292942877fcfd3667ba8304cd32afae79ca752eb>
the changelog showing everything significant that will be in 4.2.
jik
