Hi David, thanks for the patch. I will apply it as soon as possible.
Christoph
Am 10.02.2011 14:38, schrieb David Kalnischkies:
> Package: apt-show-versions
> Version: 0.16
> Tags: patch
>
> Hi,
>
> APT since version 0.8.11 prefers to download the clearsigned InRelease file
> instead of Release and his detached signature Release.gpg.
> Unfortunately apt-show-versions only parses the Release file and
> doesn't support InRelease files.
>
> The result is e.g.:
>
> $ apt-show-versions apt dpkg
> apt/unknown upgradeable from 0.8.11 to 0.8.11.1
> dpkg/unknown uptodate 1.15.8.10
>
> Note the 'unknown' release here.
>
> While I am not a perl programmer, I think the following patch should enable
> apt-show-versions to use either *_Release or *_InRelease file and at least
> does it for me in my tests:
>
> --- apt-show-versions-0.16/apt-show-versions 2009-06-19 17:37:00.000000000
> +++ apt-show-versions-0.16.1/apt-show-versions 2011-02-10 14:27:19.000000000
> @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@
> or &die("Failed to open directory $list_dir: $!\n");
> while (defined(my $rel_file = readdir LIST_DIR)) {
> my $file_name = "$list_dir/$rel_file";
> - if ($rel_file =~ m/(.*)_Release$/) {
> + if ($rel_file =~ m/(.*)_(In|)Release$/) {
> $rel_file = $1;
> }
> else {
>
>
> Thanks for work on this package and best regards,
>
> David Kalnischkies
>
>
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