[Bug 824708] Re: aptitude can no longer show changelogs: "Changelog download failed: Download queue destroyed." Please merge the fixed version, 0.6.8, from Debian.

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

On 2 July 2012 20:25, Marcin Juszkiewicz <824708 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> > Can someone take a look at aptitude 0.6.1-1ubuntu1 at
> > http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/~hrw/ubuntu/ ?

> * Between 0.6.6 and 0.6.8 there has been many changes made upstream to
> the files under debian/. Have you given consideration to those
> changes?

Yes, I had and adapted to it.

> * Removed debian/05aptitude, yet this is still mentioned in
> debian/changelog. Why removed?

Mistake - restored, added to aptitude.install

> * Unexplained changes to debian/control:

Fixed

> * debian/patches/14_html2text_preferred:
> 
>   - file paths have version number hardcoded:

refreshed to not have version

>   - upstream introduced $encoding in html-to-text which is not used by
>   your updates to this patch. Is it ok that your patched version
>   ignores it and forces encoding to ASCII?

Fixed to use utf-8 all the time and added info why

> * debian/patches/no-google-mock:
> 
>   - File paths also now have version hardcoded.
>   - Diff is very large, are the changes reliable?

Refreshed patch

** Patch added: "debdiff against Debian package"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/824708/+attachment/3222197/+files/aptitude-0.6.8-1ubuntu1.deb.diff

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Title:
  aptitude can no longer show changelogs: "Changelog download failed:
  Download queue destroyed."  Please merge the fixed version, 0.6.8,
  from Debian.

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “aptitude” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  After update of  aptitude (0.6.4-1ubuntu2) and apt
  (0.8.16~exp5ubuntu4) - aptitude can't download/view changelogs of
  packages.

  aptitude FAIL

  # aptitude changelog python-apt-common
  Err Changelog of python-apt-common
  E: Changelog download failed: Download queue destroyed.
  E: Couldn't find a changelog for python-apt-common

  apt-get OK
  WORKAROUND:
  Use apt-get changelog

  # apt-get changelog python-apt
  Get:1 Changelog for python-apt (http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/p/python-apt/python-apt_0.8.0ubuntu7/changelog) [109 kB]
  Fetched 109 kB in 0s (370 kB/s)

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