Control: found -1 2.9.14 Control: retitle -1 apt: "apt changelog" does not behave as documented and may fail because it tries to fetch an obsolete version
This is currently occurring again with binutils: Err:1 https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org binutils 2.43.50.20241126-1 Changelog Changelog unavailable for binutils=2.43.50.20241126-1 (404 Not Found [IP: 2a04:4e42:6a::644 443]) E: Failed to fetch https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/b/binutils/binutils_2.43.50.20241126-1_changelog Changelog unavailable for binutils=2.43.50.20241126-1 (404 Not Found [IP: 2a04:4e42:6a::644 443]) Because old versions for the distribution are systematically removed, I don't think that it makes sense to try to fetch a fixed version. Since metadata.ftp-master.debian.org contains <dist>_changelog files, such a file should be fetched instead (for the default distribution, use the same as what "apt-get install" does). Related to this issue, the apt-get(8) man page says changelog changelog tries to download the changelog of a package and displays it through sensible-pager. By default it displays the changelog for the version that is installed. However, you can specify the same options as for the install command. First, the "By default it displays the changelog for the version that is installed." is incorrect: 2.43.1-5 is currently installed on my machine, not 2.43.50.20241126-1 (the version apt tries to fetch). BTW, since 2.43.1-5 is currently "testing", the changelog is still available on metadata.ftp-master.debian.org. Moreover, the "However, you can specify the same options as for the install command." is incorrect too. Since the install command supports the -t option (e.g. -t unstable), this should also be the case for the changelog command. This seems to work for "testing", but neither for "unstable" or "stable", e.g. qaa:~> apt-get changelog -t stable binutils Err:1 https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org binutils 2.43.50.20241126-1 Changelog Changelog unavailable for binutils=2.43.50.20241126-1 (404 Not Found [IP: 2a04:4e42:6a::644 443]) E: Failed to fetch https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/b/binutils/binutils_2.43.50.20241126-1_changelog Changelog unavailable for binutils=2.43.50.20241126-1 (404 Not Found [IP: 2a04:4e42:6a::644 443]) while "apt-show-versions -a binutils" says that the stable version is 2.40-2; so, fetching the 2.43.50.20241126-1 version does not make sense at all. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
