Package: apt
Version: 1.8.0~alpha3
Severity: normal
`apt changelog foo` picks newer release than installed when custom
version is installed but the manual page states that the default is
meant to be the installed version.
$ man apt-get | grep '^ *changelog' -A3
changelog
changelog tries to download the changelog of a package and displays
it through sensible-pager. By default it displays the changelog for
the version that is installed. However, you can specify the same
options as for the install command.
I've recompiled restic locally to add a couple of patches that are not
yet merged upstream and the command `apt changelog restic` shows me the
version from unstable instead of my custom changelog. As far as I can
tell all the options that `apt install` provides to select non-default
versions also work for `apt changelog` though.
$ apt policy restic
restic:
Installed: 0.9.3+ds-1+pabs1
Candidate: 0.9.4+ds-1
Version table:
0.9.4+ds-1 800
800 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
*** 0.9.3+ds-1+pabs1 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.9.3+ds-1 900
900 https://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
$ apt changelog restic
Get:1 http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org restic 0.9.4+ds-1 Changelog [7,041 B]
Fetched 7,041 B in 2s (3,036 B/s)
$ apt changelog restic/now
Get:1 store: restic 0.9.3+ds-1+pabs1 Changelog
Fetched 6,754 B in 0s (0 B/s)
$ apt changelog restic=0.9.3+ds-1+pabs1
Get:1 store: restic 0.9.3+ds-1+pabs1 Changelog
Fetched 6,754 B in 0s (0 B/s)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii debian-archive-keyring 2018.1
ii gpgv 2.2.12-1
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.8.0~alpha3
ii libc6 2.28-2
ii libgcc1 1:8.2.0-13
ii libgnutls30 3.6.5-2
ii libseccomp2 2.3.3-3
ii libstdc++6 8.2.0-13
Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20170717
Versions of packages apt suggests:
ii apt-doc 1.8.0~alpha3
ii aptitude 0.8.11-6
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.2
ii gnupg 2.2.12-1
ii gnupg1 1.4.23-1
ii gnupg2 2.2.12-1
ii powermgmt-base 1.33
-- no debconf information
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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