Ubuntu
packagekit package

kpackagekit doesn't show up changelogs

Bug #377535 reported by Thomas Ohms
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packagekit (Ubuntu)
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Lucid
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python-apt (Debian)
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Lucid
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kpackagekit

Until now I can only report that kpackagekit doesn't show up any changelogs for updates. For now I only want to keep track of that bug. Will investigate further. If it's also in Ubuntu and so.
Anyone else having that problem, please report here.

TEST CASE:
1. install kpackagekit (or use kubuntu where its installed by default)
2. run "kpackagekit"
3. click on "software updates" on the left
4. select a update and verify that no changes details are displayed in the "Changes" line

5. install python-apt from lucid-proposed
6. repeat 2,4 and verify that this time changes are displayed

See original description
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Thomas Ohms (tohms) wrote :

It really seems to be a bug in kpackagekit and not packagekit, because in Gnome changelogs are shown.
Bug seems to start in Updater/KpkUpdateDetails.cpp Line 117. info.changelog.isEmpty seems to return false, because word "Changes" is displayed. But then info.changelog.* only contains "The list of changes is not available", coming from "PackageKit::Client::UpdateInfo". But as said it works in Gnome and both - KDE and Gnome - have the same libs from packagekit. So I don't really know why there is no information in kpackagekit available.
Package maintainers any idea?

Versions:
kpackagekit: 0.4-0ubuntu8.1
packagekit: 0.3.14-0ubuntu5

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Terence Simpson (tsimpson) wrote :

This seems to be an issue with the apt backend for packagekit, so I'm moving it to packagekit.

affects: kpackagekit (Ubuntu) → packagekit (Ubuntu)
Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Terence Simpson (tsimpson)
status: New → Confirmed
Terence Simpson (tsimpson)
Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Thomas Ohms (tohms) wrote :

But why is it working in Gnome? Isn't it working with apt-backend as well?

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Terence Simpson (tsimpson) wrote :

What application are you using in Gnome? I used KPackageKit and the PackageKit command-line client "pkcon", neither were able to fetch the changelog.

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Thomas Ohms (tohms) wrote :

I used packagekit-gnome. You're right pkcon doesn't work either on my test machine. That's strange as usually command line should work if backend works. Is it possible packagekit-gnome uses a different command to retrieve details about packages?

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Jan Schneider (yunosh) wrote :

Ping? This is still broken with KDE 4.3/Kubuntu Karmic.

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John O'Brien (obrien-jk) wrote :

I am also affected by this bug.

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ioniviil (ioniviil) wrote :

It's been an year since I have no idea what the updates are doing

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Asraniel (asraniel) wrote :

Same here.
There was a blog post on planet.gnome i think with a guy describing what he did to fix it for gnome.

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

backported patch to lucid's python-apt

summary: - [Jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't show up changelogs
+ kpackagekit doesn't show up changelogs
Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu):
assignee: Terence Simpson (tsimpson) → nobody
status: In Progress → Invalid
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in python-apt (Debian):
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Heimen Stoffels (vistaus)
Changed in python-apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in python-apt (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in python-apt (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Michael Vogt (mvo)
description: updated
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Please test proposed package

Accepted python-apt into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Changed in python-apt (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in python-apt (Debian):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

I can confirm this fixes the problem using the package in lucid-proposed.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Jan Schneider (yunosh) wrote :

Confirmed, but I see the changelog twice now. Once at Descriptions, once at Changes.

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote : Re: [Bug 377535] Re: kpackagekit doesn't show up changelogs

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 08:52:29PM -0000, Jan Schneider wrote:
> Confirmed, but I see the changelog twice now. Once at Descriptions, once
> at Changes.

This is a bug or mis-feature in KPackageKit.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in python-apt (Debian):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package python-apt - 0.7.94.2ubuntu6.1

---------------
python-apt (0.7.94.2ubuntu6.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Sebastian Heinlein ]
  * apt/package.py:
    - Fix the changelog downloading if there are several source package
      versions available which provide the binary (LP: #377535).
      See http://bugs.debian.org/581831 for further details

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * debian/control:
    - update Vcs-Bzr location
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 17 May 2010 15:37:44 +0200

Changed in python-apt (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

Fixed for some time already.

Changed in python-apt (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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