Re: packages.org/changelogs is down ?
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:32:58PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> was heard to say:
> On 2008-05-16 15:34, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:43:07PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> was heard to say:
> >> E: Couldn't find a changelog for vim/sid
> >> \-------------
> >
> > There is no archive named "sid". Try "unstable" instead.
>
> This also does not work:
> /-----------
> ~$ LANG=C aptitude changelog vim/unstable
> Unable to find an archive "unstable" for the package "vim"
> Unable to find an archive "unstable" for the package "vim"
> Ign ChangeLog of vim
>
> E: Couldn't fetch URL
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main///_/changelog
> E: Couldn't find a changelog for vim/unstable
> \-----------
Do you have unstable in your sources.list?
> I did try several variants before I posted, but didn't list them all....
>
> Looking for lenny or testing also reveals nothing, but directly querying
> lenny's version number does:
>
> /-----------
> 19:20:20-johannes@e13-v21:~$ LANG=C aptitude changelog vim=1:7.1-266+1
> Get:1 ChangeLog of vim [217kB]
> Fetched 217kB in 1s (123kB/s)
> \-----------
If aptitude knows the version number, it can guess the changelog URL
even if it can't find the package in its database; that may be what's
happening.
> Directly querying unstable's package number does not work:
>
> /-----------
> 19:28:57-johannes@e13-v21:~$ LANG=C aptitude changelog vim=1:7.1.293-3
> Ign ChangeLog of vim
>
> E: Couldn't fetch URL
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main///_/changelog
> E: Couldn't find a changelog for vim=1:7.1.293-3
> \-----------
Hm, odd. It works fine for me.
Daniel
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