On 01/12/2024 08:08, jman wrote:

Hi,

I've been using Debian for years and one of the question I've always
been afraid to ask is: why are Debian changelogs always so succint?

Because the Debian changelog only refers to changes in the Debian
package itself, not to upstream changes. This is documented somewhere in
the Debian policy.

Is there a workflow or something else I can do to actually get an actual summary of upstream changes, without jumping through loops trying to
reach the upstream project itself? Ideally this is something I would
like to do when upgrading my Debian packages.

Usually if the upstream provides a list of changes, it is included in /usr/share/<package-name>. But there isn't a standard for its name (and
much less for its contents), so look for names like NEWS, Changelog,
etc. Often it is gzipped.

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Hi,

I've been using Debian for years and one of the question I've always been afraid to ask is: why are
Debian changelogs always so succint?

For example, I've just upgraded the package file-roller from 44.3 to 44.4 on my testing (trixie) and
apt changelog says "New upstream release".
In reality the upstream project has actually resolved 2 annoying bugs I was following on their issue
tracker.

Is there a workflow or something else I can do to actually get an actual summary of upstream
changes, without jumping through loops trying to reach the upstream project itself? Ideally this is
something I would like to do when upgrading my Debian packages.

Thanks!

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> writes:

Usually if the upstream provides a list of changes, it is included in /usr/share/<package-name>. But there isn't a standard for its name
(and much less for its contents), so look for names like NEWS,
Changelog, etc. Often it is gzipped.

The path you probably mean is /usr/share/doc/<package-name>
I didn't think about looking there and now I've found a lot of changelogs. I'll keep it in mind.

Thanks for the tip!

Cheers,

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On 01/12/2024 09:04, jman wrote:

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> writes:

Usually if the upstream provides a list of changes, it is included in
/usr/share/<package-name>. But there isn't a standard for its name
(and much less for its contents), so look for names like NEWS,
Changelog, etc. Often it is gzipped.

The path you probably mean is /usr/share/doc/<package-name>
I didn't think about looking there and now I've found a lot of
changelogs. I'll keep it in mind.

Yes, of course it should have been /usr/share/doc.


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