Control: tag -1 + confirmed Hi,
OmegaPhil wrote: > I use aptitude as a Devuan user, but with vanilla aptitude it is not > possible to download changelogs for packages due to the hardcoded origin > check in generic/apt/pkg_changelog.cc:check_valid_origin: > > https://sources.debian.org/src/aptitude/0.8.10-6/src/generic/apt/pkg_changelog.cc/#L691 > > Please can the whitelist be user-configurable? We should at least make this more flexible. Not sure, what's the best way. There are though plans to further shrink the diff to Ubuntu by making more stuff vendor-dependent. And currently Ubuntu patches exactly these lines of code (plus more related lines): https://patches.ubuntu.com/a/aptitude/aptitude_0.8.10-6ubuntu1.patch > For reference currently the recommended Devuan repo has no Origin > specified (it used to), That's a really bad decision. Why have they done it? They don't gain anything from it except breaking their infrastructure and annoying their users. > but talking on IRC it sounds like they will fix this if aptitude is > changed to allow non-Debian repos as a valid source. Huh? That sounds a lot like extortion. If it was meant like that, they won't get any farther — neither here nor anywhere else. Regards, Axel (running Debian Unstable with sysvinit or openrc) -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
