Broken URL in GRUB change description

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Tue Mar 26 12:47:40 UTC 2019


On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:29:01AM +1100, Luke (gmail) wrote:
> The URL provided in the Technical Description (Changes) for GRUB updates
> typically (always?) contains a broken link to the list of changes (which are
> listed as not yet available, on every occasion I've checked).
> 
> This undermines confidence in the validity of the package; I don't expect
> official package updates to contain broken links.
> 
> A case in point:
> 
> "Changes for grub-efi-amd64-signed versions:
> Installed version: 1.66.20+2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.20
> Available version: 1.66.21+2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.21
> 
> The list of changes is not yet available.
> 
> Please use http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2-signed/1.66.21+2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.21/+changelog
> until the changes become available or try again later."

This is an update-manager bug:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/655917

I don't normally work on update-manager, but the problem is pretty clear
now that I've looked at it, so I'll see if I can put together a fix.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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