Lack of change description on update-manager

t u towsonu2003 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 04:54:56 BST 2006


Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I recently noticed that it's relatively common for update packages to
> have no mention about what's changed when a new package version is
> released. Tonight, before updating my Dapper box, I tried to check the
> state of the three packages that were offered to me as upgrade. They are:
> 
> 1) xinit (1.0.1-0ubuntu3.1)
> 2) wine (0.9.23~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06-1)
> 3) libwine (0.9.23~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06-1)

there are at least two bugs on this:

specific to xinit:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xinit/+bug/66504

bug in general:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/40058

unfortunately, this happens all too often. I would like to +1 Ribeiro's
call.

thanks



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