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For softwares/packages from LP PPA, no changelog available

Open hsbasu opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

For softwares/packages installed from LP PPA, no changelog is available. Many of the users like me might be interested in the changelogs before updating a package. In contrast, Software Updater is showing changelogs. (Screenshots attached) no_changelog with_changelog

hsbasu avatar Sep 27 '22 08:09 hsbasu

CC @robert-ancell is this possible with packagekit.dart ?

Feichtmeier avatar Sep 27 '22 08:09 Feichtmeier

Packagekit provides some information via PackageKitTransaction.getUpdateDetail in the PackageKitUpdateDetailEvent.changelog event. I don't know if it contains all the information that is used in Software Updater", which gets these via a different method.

If we don't have all the information we need we either need to update the apt PackageKit backend to provide this, or get the changelogs directly (which we can do if we only need to support apt).

robert-ancell avatar Sep 28 '22 21:09 robert-ancell

Packagekit provides some information via PackageKitTransaction.getUpdateDetail in the PackageKitUpdateDetailEvent.changelog event. I don't know if it contains all the information that is used in Software Updater", which gets these via a different method.

If we don't have all the information we need we either need to update the apt PackageKit backend to provide this, or get the changelogs directly (which we can do if we only need to support apt).

Normal updates work fine with PackageKitTransaction.getUpdateDetail. Just not those from PPAs (prominent example might be google-chrome though I am not sure if those guys put any information into the PPA changelog at all)

Feichtmeier avatar Sep 28 '22 21:09 Feichtmeier

@d-loose This app is supposed to be replacing the traditional Software Updater, right? But this feature is not yet available in this app.

hsbasu avatar Sep 28 '23 12:09 hsbasu

No, for the time being the new app center (together with the new firmware updater) is only supposed to replace gnome-software.

d-loose avatar Sep 28 '23 12:09 d-loose