Bug#487518: packages.debian.org: 'current' changelog is most recent overall, not most recent in sid
On Thu, July 3, 2008 15:48, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 12:57:18PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>
>> On Tue, July 1, 2008 00:00, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, I can understand that some people don't want to see the
>>> experimental changelog, and to fix that at some point might be nice, I
>>> really don't see why you wouldn't want to have the newest version from
>>> stable/testing/unstable?
>>
>> The PTS currently links to the changelog named "current":
>> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/phpmyadmin/current/cha
>> ngelog
>>
>> Which changelog would you expect to see when you click on that link
>> from the PTS page? I would not expect to get the changelog for 'stable'
>> then.
>
> No, but I also would not expect the stable version to be ever greater
> than the unstable version. So maybe two broken assumptions together give a
> valid one again ;)
Maybe I misunderstand you, but I'm not talking about a situation where the
stable version is greater than the unstable version. I'm talking about the
common situation where a package in stable is newer (of a more recent
date) than the unstable one.
Example: I have a package a which has a new upstream 1.2 that fixes a
security issue.
On the 1st of June I upload 1.2-1 to unstable. The 'current' changelog is
now the changelog for 1.2-1.
Stable has 0.9-2. On the 7th of June I upload version 0.9-2+etch1 to
stable. The 'current' changelog is now the one from 0.9-2+etch1.
> On a more serious note, I think the right solution is
> to make the canonical changelog link something like
> packages.debian.org/<suite>/<pkg>/changelog This is shorter and less
> ambigous.
Yes, that sounds like a good idea.
Thijs
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