mintupdate mangles changelogs

[nemoinis]

mintupdate truncates lines of packages changelogs (actually it seems to ignore any line that does not start with a '*'). As you can see in the attached example, this often drops crucial information such as ids of fixed bugs, explanation of changes, etc...

[Bill O'Donnell (willsha360)]

Here is a patch to mintUpdate.py that copies the changelog directly to the window, if found. Also checks return value of call to aptitude for getting changelogs.

[nemoinis (nemoinis)]

Thanks for the patch, the changelogs look good now!

Note: the patch did not apply cleanly, due to whitespacing issues: in my mintUpdate.py v4.3.3 (and on github's too) there are spaces at the end of line 106, which are not in your patch. The patch did not apply cleanly with --ignore-whitespace either. But it did apply cleanly once I added the whitespaces into your patch.

[steffmeister (steffed)]

So I recreated a patch from the patch from Bill O'Donnell, this one applys cleanly to current git. I'll also attach two screenshots one before and one after the patch which should clarify what this does.

[steffmeister (steffed)]

I also created a pull request on github: https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/pull/10

[steffmeister (steffed)]

Looks like this was fixed in 4.4.7. I guess we can close this.