Bug#269673: tetex-bin: NEWS.Debian not displayed on upgrade

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Matt,

me again... This might be a bug in apt-listchanges, or at least a
request for some better documentation.

Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.2-20
> Severity: normal
>
> During an upgrade from tetex-bin 2.0.2-15 the news (in NEWS.Debian.gz)
> was not displayed.  The file is present after the upgrade.
>
> For other packages, similar problems arise from improper formatting of
> the NEWS file.  It needs to be like the Debian.changelog's.  It looks
> to me as if it does have that format, so I don't know what's going on.
>
> It was apt-get dist-upgrade, with apt-listchanges installed and set to
> output the news.  This has worked with upgrades of other packages.

I tried to debug this, but on my system I cannot get any NEWS.Debian
displayed by apt-listchanges, e.g.

alhambra:/home/frank# dpkg -l bug
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                  Version               Description
+++-=====================-=====================-==========================================================
pn  bug                   <none>                (no description available)
alhambra:/home/frank# apt-get install bug
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bug
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2814B of archives.
After unpacking 15.4kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://localhost unstable/main bug 4.0.0 [2814B]
Fetched 2814B in 2s (1357B/s)
Selecting previously deselected package bug.
(Reading database ... 68180 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bug (from .../apt/archives/bug_4.0.0_all.deb) ...
Setting up bug (4.0.0) ...
alhambra:/home/frank# ls /usr/share/doc/bug/NEWS.Debian.gz 
/usr/share/doc/bug/NEWS.Debian.gz
alhambra:/home/frank# 

Nothing is displayed at all, although

alhambra:/home/frank# cat /etc/apt/listchanges.conf
[apt]
frontend=pager
email_address=frank@kuesterei.ch
confirm=1
which=both
alhambra:/home/frank# 

Should I reassign this to apt-listchanges, or am I doing something badly
wrong? 

Thanks in advance, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie