[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1017492: aptitude: aptitude-changelog-parser: warning: unknow information field '' in input data in parsed version of changelog

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Wed Aug 17 00:21:46 BST 2022


Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-5
Severity: minor

Pressing "C" for getting the changelog on debian-policy when marked for
updating from 4.6.1.0 to 4.6.1.1, aptitude-changelog-parser throws a
warning (multiple times) and scrambles the whole screen with them:

                                   Packages                                                                 debian-policy changes                             
debian-policy (4.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium                                                                                                             #
iu          apfsprogs                                                                   it20210928-2                      0+git20220815+ds-1                 ▒
  * d/control: Add Homepage field (Closes: #1012879).          0            482 kB   1.9.0-1                              1.9.0-2                            ▒
    Thanks to Benjamin Drung for the suggestion.               0            20.2 MB  1.9.0-1                              1.9.0-2                            ▒
  * Upgrading checklist for 4.5.1: apply wording change from 07f1b39        89.1 kB  0.9.0-3                              0.9.0-4                            ▒
    (Closes: #1017095).                                        0  -1024 B   150 kB   0.15.1-1                             0.15.1-2                           ▒
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 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>  Sat, 13 Aug 2022 17:13:34 -07002585 kB  1.6.12-1                             1.6.12-2                           ▒
iuA i           oot-common                                     0            338 kB   1.6.12-1                             1.6.12-2                           ▒
debian-policy (4.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium               1  +75.8 kB  3494 kB  5.18.0-1                             5.19.0-1                           ▒
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  * Policy: Allow non-64-bit packages to install to /usr/lib64                                                                                               ▒
    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>                                                                                                         ▒
    Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>                                                                                                               ▒
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>                                                                                                                  ▒
    Closes: #992601                                                                                                                                          ▒
  * Policy: Define 'upstream' & document several version conventions                                                                                         ▒
    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>                                                                                                                   ▒
    Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans at debian.org>                                                                                                              ▒
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>                                                                                                        ▒
    Closes: #542288, #850729                                                                                                                                 ▒
  * virtual-package-names-list: Add {default,}dbus-system-bus (Closes: #998063).                                                                             ▒
    Thanks to Simon McVittie for the patch.                                                                                                                  ▒
iu* Update 9.7.2 and 9.7.3 for package split of bin:mime-support into       4792 kB  4:5.96.0-1                           4:5.97.0-1                         ▒
iu  bin:media-types and bin:mailcap (Closes: #1008480).        0  +4096 B   508 kB   1.50.7+ds-1                          1.50.9+ds-1                        ▒
iu  Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.                    0            95.2 kB  1.50.7+ds-1                          1.50.9+ds-1                        ▒
iu  i                              m                           0            157 kB   1.50.7+ds-1                          1.50.9+ds-1                        ▒
  * Fix several problems with footnote regarding the autobuilders and                                                                                        ▒
    build dependency alternatives (Closes: #999826).                                                                                                         ▒
iu  Thanks to Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues for the report and patch.kB  6358 kB  4.3.4-2                              4.3.4-3                            ▒
iu* Use syntax highlighting for some source code blocks (Closes: #999566).  734 MB   4.0.2+ds-2                           4.1.0+ds-1                         ▒
  --Thanks to Stéphane Blondon for the patch.or software development (27)                                                                                    ▒
    --\         27)                                                                                                                                          ▒
 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>  Wed, 11 May 2022 11:02:59 -0700                                                                                 ▒
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debian-policy (4.6.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium                                                                                                             ▒
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  * Fix header of upgrading checklist entry for last release (Closes: #992414).                                                                              ▒
    Thanks to Scott Talbert and Drew Parsons for reporting the problem.                                                                                      ▒
                                                                                                                                                             ▒
 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>  Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:21:50 -0700                                                                                 ▒
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debian-policy (4.6.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium                            4967 kB  3.2.2+dfsg-12                        3.2.2+dfsg-14                      ▒
iuA                s-base-3.2.2                                1  +1024 B   7757 kB  3.2.2+dfsg-12                        3.2.2+dfsg-14                      ▒
iu[ Sean Whitton ]     -3.2.2                                  1  +1024 B   9050 kB  3.2.2+dfsg-12                        3.2.2+dfsg-14                      ▒
iu* Policy: Allow manpages to be included in the dependencies of packages   61.7 MB  3.2.2+dfsg-12                        3.2.2+dfsg-14                      ▒
iuA Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut at subdivi.de>                 1  +1024 B   2487 kB  3.2.2+dfsg-12                        3.2.2+dfsg-14                      ▒
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>                                                                                                                  ▒
    Seconded: Christoph Berg <myon at debian.org>                                                                                                               ▒
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>                                                                                                        ▒
    Closes: #983657                                                                                                                                          ▒
  * Policy: Support for subpaths in Vcs-Git                                                                                                                  ▒
    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>                                                                                                                   ▒
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>                                                                                                        ▒
    Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org>                                                                                                             ▒
    Closes: #932696                                                                                                                                          ▒
  * 4.4: Fix changelog format: needs an extra space before sign-off                                                                                          ▒
    (Closes: #976301).                                                                                                                                       ▒
    Thanks to Anatoli Babenia for reporting the problem.                                                                                                     ▒
  * autopkgtest: Update variable name ADTTMP->AUTOPKGTEST_TMP (Closes: #989581).                                                                             ▒
    Thanks to Fabrice Bauzac-Stehly for reporting the problem.                                                                                               ▒
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  [ Russ Allbery ]                                                                                                                                           ▒
  * Policy: Add new encouraged keyword, make keywords consistent                                                                                             ▒
    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>                                                                                                                   ▒
    Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans at debian.org>                                                                                                              ▒
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>                                                                                                        ▒
    Closes: #944920                                                                                                                                          ▒
  * Clarify that no package may install files in /usr/lib64.  The previous                                                                                   ▒
    wording implied this restriction only applied to 64-bit packages.                                                                                        ▒  * Reserve the /etc/rcn.d directories for the init-system-helpers package                                                                                   ▒
    rather than the sysvinit package, reflecting a change already made in                                                                                    ▒    the archive.                                                                                                                                             ▒
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D-- Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>  Tue, 17 Aug 2021 20:06:42 -0700                                            aptitude-changelog-parser: warning: u▒know              field '' in input data in parsed version of changelog                                                                                     3▒
debian-policy (4.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium                       aptitude-changelog-parser: warning: unknown information field '' in input data in pars▒d versio        ngelog                                                                                                                                       ▒
  * Policy: Relax requirements on copying copyright notices into d/copyrightn field '' in input data in parsed version of changelog                          ▒
    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>                                                                                                         ▒    Seconded: Scott Kitterman <debian at kitterman.com>                                                                                                         ▒
    Seconded: Joerg Jaspert <joerg at debian.org>                                                                                                               ▒    Closes: #955005                                                                                                                                          ▒
  * Policy: Forbid vendor-specific series files                                                                                                              ▒
    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>                                                                                          aptitude-change▒    Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>                                                                                                            ▒
    Seconded: Graham Inggs <ginggs at debian.org>                                                                                                               ▒

See also the attached screenshot.

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Getting the changelog of other Debian packages, e.g. git-doc, doesn't
show this behaviour.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.8.13-5
ii  libapt-pkg6.0             2.5.2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.74.0  1.74.0-16.1+b1
ii  libc6                     2.34-3
ii  libcwidget4               0.5.18-6
ii  libgcc-s1                 12.1.0-8
ii  libncursesw6              6.3+20220423-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.10.8-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.39.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                12.1.0-8
ii  libtinfo6                 6.3+20220423-2
ii  libxapian30               1.4.20-2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libdpkg-perl    1.21.9
ii  sensible-utils  0.0.17

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.53
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-5
ii  debtags                         2.1.5
ii  tasksel                         3.70

-- no debconf information


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