Comment 71 for bug 40058

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towsonu2003 (towsonu2003) wrote :

quoting from Martin Pitt's email to ubuntu-devel
"Re: Lack of change description on update-manager"
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> As a user, I would ask developers & packagers to alwasy provide the
> "changed" information for all packages that are updated. I know that it's
> something difficult to do, and that it involves a lot of work; but it's
> something that makes a lot of difference, because I have now to update
> packages as a matter of trust, without knowing what was really changed.

I totally agree. I fact it's already set up for a loong time and works
quite well, but there is a certain delay involved.
changelogs.ubuntu.com usually lags behind about half a day, so you
usually don't see them if you pull timely security updates. However,
there will always be an USN for updates in main (see [2], if you are
concerned about it, you should definitively subscribe[3].

Martin

[1] http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/x/xinit/xinit_1.0.1-0ubuntu3.1/
[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2006-October/000414.html
[3] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce
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I think one should find a solution to the half-day lag of changelogs.ubuntu.com