Jakub Wilk writes: > Package: apt-listchanges > Version: 3.12 > > For some packages, apt-listchanges calls "apt-get -qq changelog > $package=$version",
Yes, I've recently merged a patch from Ubuntu, because I think this is a pretty nice feature to be able to see changelogs even if a package itself does not have one, e.g. because its documentation directory is a symlink to directory provided by other dependent package. Another reason is to allow newer versions of apt-listchanges to be automatically pulled by Ubuntu to make bug reports in their Launchpad more valuable to me. However after merging the patch, I've found that it calls `apt-get changelog' a way too often. I've already have fix for this, which I'm currently testing and plan to upload during the weekend. With the fix the apt-get command will *almost* never be called during the normal upgrades (but e.g. will be called if somebody runs e.g. `apt-listchanges -a single-package-without-changelog.deb'). > which downloads changelog from > http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/. > I did not agree to disclosing > which packages I install to this party. Do you mean to Debian? Is it less trustworthy than the mirror you download .deb files during upgrades from? :) > Please disable this misfeature. I can add config file option for this. Regards, robert
