[Aptitude-devel] Bug#755677: aptitude: Recognizes "Debian Backports" packages as official for downloading changelogs on the CLI, but not in the TUI

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending
Control: owner -1 !


Hi,

2014-07-22 11:21 Axel Beckert:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.11-1
>Control: found -1 0.6.8.2-1
>
>Hi,
>
>I actually ran into the following on Debian Wheezy, but then also was
>able to reproduce this in Sid:
>
>If I try to download and view the changelog of a package from an
>official "Debian Backports" repository
>(e.g. http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/r/redmine/wheezy-backports_changelog,
>the repository's release identification is
>"release v=,o=Debian Backports,a=wheezy-backports,n=wheezy-backports,l=Debian Backports,c=main")
>in the NCurses TUI by pressing "Shift-C", aptitude currently claims, it's
>not an official package: "You can only view changelogs of official
>Debian packages."
>
>And yes, there is a related fix in Sid (https://bugs.debian.org/714619),
>but only in one place out of two as it seems: only for the command line
>interface.  And indeed, if I do the same from the command line on Sid,
>it works as expected, at least in Sid: "aptitude changelog
>redmine=2.5.1-2\~bpo70+2" works fine.

Now merged code and works in both, marking as +pending.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>