Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.83 Severity: wishlist Some binary packages, like perl-modules, do not provide a changelog because they rely on another package to do it. For instance, perl-modules provides the symlink:
/usr/share/doc/perl-modules -> perl This means that if such a package is upgraded alone (e.g. because the other package isn't available yet), the user won't see a changelog, and may not be aware that he misses a changelog (until the other package becomes avaiable, but it may be too late). apt-listchanges should support this case in some way, e.g. either by (optionally) downloading the changelog from the web or by including some warning in the output (the warning could contain the URL of the changelog). -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on: ii apt 0.7.22.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 3.2.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii python 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-apt 0.7.12.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii python-support 1.0.3 automated rebuilding support for P ii ucf 3.0018 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages apt-listchanges recommends: ii exim4 4.69-11 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-11 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon Versions of packages apt-listchanges suggests: ii elinks [www-browser] 0.12~pre5-1 advanced text-mode WWW browser ii galeon [www-browser] 2.0.7-1 GNOME web browser for advanced use ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal- 2.26.2-2 The GNOME terminal emulator applic ii iceape-browser [www-browser 1.1.17-1 Iceape Navigator (Internet browser ii iceweasel [www-browser] 3.0.12-1 lightweight web browser based on M ii links [www-browser] 2.2-1+b1 Web browser running in text mode ii links2 [www-browser] 2.2-1+b1 Web browser running in both graphi ii lynx-cur [www-browser] 2.8.7rel.1-1 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup ii midori [www-browser] 0.1.8-1 fast, lightweight graphical web br ii mlterm [x-terminal-emulator 2.9.4-6 MultiLingual TERMinal ii mrxvt [x-terminal-emulator] 0.5.4-1 lightweight multi-tabbed X termina ii mrxvt-mini [x-terminal-emul 0.5.4-1 lightweight multi-tabbed X termina ii python-glade2 2.14.1-3 GTK+ bindings: Glade support ii python-gtk2 2.14.1-3 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge ii rxvt [x-terminal-emulator] 1:2.6.4-14 VT102 terminal emulator for the X ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-2.1 WWW browsable pager with excellent ii xfce4-terminal [x-terminal- 0.4.0-1 Xfce terminal emulator ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 243-1 X terminal emulator -- debconf information: apt-listchanges/confirm: false apt-listchanges/which: news * apt-listchanges/frontend: pager apt-listchanges/email-address: root apt-listchanges/save-seen: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
