keeps showing openoffice.org entries (from uno-libs3)

Bug #342889 reported by Pasi Savolainen
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apt-listchanges (Debian)
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Unknown
apt-listchanges (Ubuntu)
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Nominated for Lucid by michael perigard

Bug Description

Binary package hint: apt-listchanges

apt-listchanges keeps showing changelog entries for openoffice.org even though they've been shown many times now.
Oldest visible change is "openoffice.org2 (1.9.66-0ubuntu1) hoary; urgency=low"
and latest "openoffice.org (1:3.0.1-5ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low" so it spams badly.

There are also some entries with package name openoffice.org2 inbetween.

There are entries downto "openoffice (0.638c-1) unstable; urgency=low" in /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org-core/changelog.Debian.gz (though it's not necessarily that package that got updated).

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Vince (vincent-vanackere) wrote :

I encountered the same problem.
After some analysis, this is triggered by the package uno-libs3 : apt-listchanges correctly infers that the package has source-package "openoffice.org" but unfortunately the version of uno-libs3 (currently 1.4.1+OOo3.0.1-9ubuntu2) doesn't match the version from the changelog/source package (3.0.1-9ubuntu2).
Therefore apt-listchanges tries to print the changelog of uno-libs3 between 1.4.1+OOo3.0.1-9ubuntu2
1.4.1+OOo3.0.1-9ubuntu1 but /usr/share/doc/uno-libs3/changelog.Debian.gz has only the base versions).

Either this is a bug in the debian packaging, or apt-listchanges needs to be made smarter to deal with such cases... Any comment from someone knowledgeable ?

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Vince (vincent-vanackere) wrote :

Reproduced + basic analysis of the bad behaviour.

Changed in apt-listchanges (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - keeps showing openoffice.org entries
+ keeps showing openoffice.org entries (from uno-libs3)
Changed in apt-listchanges (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
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Vince (vincent-vanackere) wrote :

The debian BTS (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517777) has a proposed patch for this problem.
Please consider applying the same fix to the ubuntu version.

Changed in apt-listchanges (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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