Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:

> On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > =====
> > $ 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
> > =====
>
> mercurial's changelog is symlinked to mercurial-common's.

Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de> writes:

> /usr/share/doc/mercurial is a symlink to mercurial-common. And
> mercurial-common is arch all and not rebuilt for binNMUs. So maybe a
> (minor) bug in mercurial?

I think it's a bug *somewhere*, yes. The user installing a package
should not need to know the details of how the changelog is managed; she
should be able to look at the changelog for the binary package and see
for any released version, whether binNMU or not, a corresponding
changelog entry.

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