Subject: aptitude URL to use to download metadata

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 13:11:01 +0000

Package: aptitude
Version:  0.8.13

Releases: beowulf and chimaera,

in the section aptitude preferences there is written
URL to use to download metadata
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs

That means meta data of devuan packages cannot be downloaded through 
this channel.
Thus aptitude cannot report changelogs from the devuan packages.

Please correct.

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 10:54:05 +0100

Control: reassign -1 devuan-project
Control: retitle -1 Changelogs are not available for forked packages
Control: affects -1 aptitude apt
Control: severity -1 wishlist

Thanks

Yes I was aware of this. It is a wider issue than aptitude (also affects apt and
probably others) and there isn't a straightforward solution as we need to merge
the available changelogs so that they are available on a single URL.

Maybe that can be done through an nginx redirect. I will give it some more
thought.

Reassigning to devuan-project.

Mark

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 12:08:59 +0100

Control: tags -1 pending

I have an initial implementation to support this deployed for unstable and
experimental[1]

It works for apt. However, there is an unresolved Debian restriction on the
Origin field[2] which prevents aptitude from using the provided metadata.

Mark

[1]  http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/changelogs

[2]  https://bugs.debian.org/889924

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 12:48:40 +0100

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 aptitude
Control: retitle -2 aptitude doesn't accept non-Debian Origin when downloading changelogs
Control: tags -2 =debian
Control: forwarded -2 https://bugs.debian.org/889924

On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 12:08:59PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> It works for apt.

And synaptic.

Cloning the outstanding aptitude issue as a separate bug.

Mark