Howdy all,
Occasionally I notice a package upgrade on a host, but the Debian
changelog for the package has no corresponding changelog entry for the
new release.
The most recent example is ‘mercurial’:
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$ PACKAGE=mercurial
$ dpkg-query -W -f 'Version: ${Version}\n' $PACKAGE
Version: 1.4.1-1+b1
$ zcat /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/changelog.Debian.gz | dpkg-parsechangelog -l- |
grep '^Version:'
Version: 1.4.1-1
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So, the version was upgraded to ‘1.2.1-1+b1’, but there latest entry in
the changelog is still only ‘1.4.1-1’. There is no entry describing the
changes in the latest release of the package, as specified in policy
§4.4.
How does this occur? A conversation on IRC suggested it might be related
to binNMU upgrades, but I don't know enough about that aspect to judge.
How can this be addressed so that changelog entries always accompany the
binary package for any new release of a package? Is this a bug in some
part of the system, and if so, where?
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Ben Finney
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