[Bug 1672555] Re: If srcpkg is in main but a binary package is in universe, `apt changelog` fails

[Nish Aravamudan]

** Branch linked: lp:~nacc/extract-changelogs/changelog-components

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Title:
  If srcpkg is in main but a binary package is in universe, `apt
  changelog` fails

Status in extract-changelogs:
  In Progress
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  $ apt changelog qemu
  Err:1 http://changelogs.ubuntu.com qemu 1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2 Changelog
    Changelog unavailable for qemu=1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2 (404  Not Found)
  E: Failed to fetch http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu_2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2/changelog  Changelog unavailable for qemu=1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2 (404  Not Found)

  This is because the binary package's component is used to generate the
  URI, but the source is in main and changelogs are organized by source.

  Based upon IRC conversation with slangasek and juliank, it possibly
  makes sense to flatten the pool/ changelogs to drop the component
  subdirectory (with symlinks for BC) and then change apt to not use the
  component in the URI generation

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