[Bug 1383789] Re: Change logs are no longer found

[Calvin Li]

An examination of the outgoing HTTP requests for aptitude changelog vs.
apt-get changelog shows that aptitude is missing a /pool in the URL:

No.     Time           Source                Destination           Protocol Length Info
    889 29.865225000   192.168.42.65         91.189.95.36          HTTP     220    GET /changelogs/main/p/pyyaml/pyyaml_3.11-1ubuntu0.1_changelog HTTP/1.1
    891 30.048039000   91.189.95.36          192.168.42.65         HTTP     592    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found  (text/html)
    957 39.885594000   192.168.42.65         91.189.95.36          HTTP     241    GET /changelogs/pool/main/p/pyyaml/pyyaml_3.11-1ubuntu0.1/changelog HTTP/1.1
    965 40.095237000   91.189.95.36          192.168.42.65         HTTP     3538   HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/plain)


(first half is `aptitude changelog`, second half is `apt-get changelog`)


Looking through the Debian -> Ubuntu patches for 0.6.8 vs 0.6.11, the
lines

--- a/src/generic/apt/pkg_changelog.cc
+++ b/src/generic/apt/pkg_changelog.cc
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@
 
               // WATCH: apt/cmdline/apt-get.cc(DownloadChangelog)
               string server = aptcfg->Find("APT::Changelogs::Server",
-                                           "http://packages.debian.org/changelogs");
+                                           "http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs");
              string path = cw::util::ssprintf("pool/%s/%s/%s/%s_%s",
                                              realsection.c_str(),
                                              prefix.c_str(),


got changed to

--- aptitude-0.6.11.orig/src/generic/apt/pkg_changelog.cc
+++ aptitude-0.6.11/src/generic/apt/pkg_changelog.cc
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ namespace aptitude

               // WATCH: apt/cmdline/apt-get.cc(DownloadChangelog)
               string server = aptcfg->Find("APT::Changelogs::Server",
-                                           "http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs");
+                                           "http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool");
              string path = cw::util::ssprintf("%s/%s/%s/%s_%s",
                                              realsection.c_str(),
                                              prefix.c_str(),


Apparently the new patch doesn't work?

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Title:
  Change logs are no longer found

Status in aptitude package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The key stroke "C" is supposed to display the latest change log. This
  no longer happens.

  An error message of "Failed to download the change log of [package] :
  404 Not found" is displayed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: aptitude 0.6.11-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.30-generic 3.16.4
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct 21 16:48:58 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-09 (226 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140305)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   TERM=screen-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-08 (13 days ago)

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