An examination of the outgoing HTTP requests for aptitude changelog vs.
apt-get changelog shows that aptitude is missing a /pool in the URL:
No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Length Info
889 29.865225000 192.168.42.65 91.189.95.36 HTTP 220
GET /changelogs/main/p/pyyaml/pyyaml_3.11-1ubuntu0.1_changelog HTTP/1.1
891 30.048039000 91.189.95.36 192.168.42.65 HTTP 592
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (text/html)
957 39.885594000 192.168.42.65 91.189.95.36 HTTP 241
GET /changelogs/pool/main/p/pyyaml/pyyaml_3.11-1ubuntu0.1/changelog HTTP/1.1
965 40.095237000 91.189.95.36 192.168.42.65 HTTP
3538 HTTP/1.1 200 OK (text/plain)
(first half is `aptitude changelog`, second half is `apt-get changelog`)
Looking through the Debian -> Ubuntu patches for 0.6.8 vs 0.6.11, the
lines
--- a/src/generic/apt/pkg_changelog.cc
+++ b/src/generic/apt/pkg_changelog.cc
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@
// WATCH: apt/cmdline/apt-get.cc(DownloadChangelog)
string server = aptcfg->Find("APT::Changelogs::Server",
-
"http://packages.debian.org/changelogs";);
+
"http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs";);
string path = cw::util::ssprintf("pool/%s/%s/%s/%s_%s",
realsection.c_str(),
prefix.c_str(),
got changed to
--- aptitude-0.6.11.orig/src/generic/apt/pkg_changelog.cc
+++ aptitude-0.6.11/src/generic/apt/pkg_changelog.cc
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ namespace aptitude
// WATCH: apt/cmdline/apt-get.cc(DownloadChangelog)
string server = aptcfg->Find("APT::Changelogs::Server",
-
"http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs";);
+
"http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool";);
string path = cw::util::ssprintf("%s/%s/%s/%s_%s",
realsection.c_str(),
prefix.c_str(),
Apparently the new patch doesn't work?
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