Changelog is not truncated for packages with 1: version number

More packages with this problem:

capplets
gnome-control-center
gnome-mag
gthumb
gucharmap
iceauth
libgnome-mag2
libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a
libvte-common
xpmutils

However there are some packages which display a : in the version number but do seem to truncate their changelog:
bsdutils
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/u/util-linux/util-linux_2.12r-4ubun
tu6/changelog
libgcc1
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/gcc-4.0/gcc-4.0_4.0.3-1ubuntu5/c
hangelog

I commented in bug #40058 that I see this behaviour as well.

Hmm, another remark: are you sure the changes you see include changes for the version that is to be installed? For the example above: 1:2.14.1-0ubuntu8?

This 'long' changelog might be caused by the fact that an entry for the version to be installed in missing (see bug #40058).

As the comments in the source hinted, the epoch stuff is a bit dicey. In this patch I strip the epoch off changelog versions and the source version number so it hopefully won't matter if they are there or not in all combinations.

I also compile the version matching regex outside the loop and don't do regex matching at all if we don't have a version number (which happens on things like new major numbered kernels)

Tested with:
capplets-data 2.14.1-0ubuntu7
gnome-control-center 2.14.1-0ubuntu7
gnome-mag 0.12.4-0ubuntu3
libgnome-mag2 0.12.4-0ubuntu3
libvte-common 0.12.1-0ubuntu1
gaim 1.5.0+1.5.1cvs20051015-1ubuntu9

acpi-support 0.84
app-install-data 0.1.32
firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu10
metacity 2.14.3-0ubuntu2
vim-common 6.4-006+2ubuntu4

Adriaan:

If you want to give some feed back I have a patched version of update-manager with my fixes over here: http://sucs.org/~sits/test/um.tar.gz

WARNING! Running random code off the net is dangerous. It is even more dangerous as root (which is required for testing my code). You do so at your own risk.

There are no epoch updates right now, so I cannot test it. I will do that when I get the chance :)

Adriaan:

xserver-xorg-input-mouse is an example

With the current version of update-manager (not your patched one) I get a changelog, but the entry for the to-be-installed version is missing.

What I expect: JUST the entry for the new version (and the changelog entries in between the current and the to-be-installed version).

I just see too many changelogs on the unpatched update-manager. The first entry is Version 1:1.0.3.1+cvs.20060109-0ubuntu1.1 (but perhaps I use different source URIs to you).

To test the patched one cd inside the patched update manager folder and sudo ./new-update-manager. Over here I see one changelog entry on that package with the patched one...

login, passwd and ppp should all be OK too...

With your version the changelog is empty :s

This bug is still here with Edgy... Can anyone review the attached patch?

nvidia-glx-legacy also seems to have this problem but mysteriously does not have a 1: in its version number...

This bug is still here with Feisty (Herd 5):

Version information:
update-manager 0.57.8

Thanks a lot for the detailed logs in this bugreport!

This should be fixed in my bzr tree now and will be part of the next upload (0.57.9)

Feedback is very welcome.

Cheer,s
 Michael