- Package:
- apt-listchanges
- Source:
- apt-listchanges
- Submitter:
- Jochen Sprickerhof
- Date:
- 2026-04-23 13:15:01 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Hi Jonathan,
I just found that the changelog entries for cryptsetup are in the wrong
order:
$ mmdebstrap --include=cryptsetup-bin,apt-listchanges \
--chrooted-customize-hook="sed -i 's/testing/experimental/' \
/etc/apt/sources.list; apt update; apt install apt-listchanges/experimental; \
sed -i 's/news/both/' /etc/apt/listchanges.conf; \
sed -i 's/experimental/unstable/' /etc/apt/sources.list; apt update; \
apt upgrade --yes" testing /dev/null
[..]
apt-listchanges: Changelogs
---------------------------
expat (2.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=high
* New upstream release:
- fixes CVE-2023-52425: fix quadratic runtime issues with big tokens that
can cause denial of service (closes: #1063238),
- fixes CVE-2023-52426: fix billion laughs attacks for users compiling
without XML_DTD defined (which is not common) (closes: #1063240).
Thanks for the bug report. This is an edge case I don't know how to handle. We sort version numbers in changelog entries in reverse order according to apt_pkg.version_compare, which indeed considers 2:2.7.0-1+exp a newer version number than 2:2.7.0-1. I checked the Debian Policy Manual and it doesn't say anything about the suffix "+exp" deserving any special treatment (in fact it doesn't mention it at all). jik
Hi Jonathan, * Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> [2024-08-31 19:17]: Agreed but there is no requirement that changelog entries are ordered by version so I think they should be kept in the order as read from debian/changelog. Cheers Jochen
Same issue with firebird3.0, for which apt-listchanges gives
apt-listchanges: Changelogs
---------------------------
firebird3.0 (3.0.12.ds7-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* use increasing upstream version number by switching back to official
releases, but removing the fourth version component
No actual upstream chanes
I'm going to upgrade a machine to the Linux kernel 6.19.13-1: aptitude 0.8.13 @ disset Disk: +125 MB DL: 0 B/172 MB --\ Packages to be upgraded (5) iuA linux-base-amd64 6.19.12-1 6.19.13-1 iu linux-doc 6.19.12-1 6.19.13-1 iuA linux-doc-6.19 +2048 B 6.19.12-1 6.19.13-1 iu linux-image-amd6 6.19.12-1 6.19.13-1 iuA linux-libc-dev +2048 B 6.19.12-1 6.19.13-1 --\ Packages being automatically installed to satisfy dependencies (4) piA linux-base-6.19. +967 kB <none> 6.19.13-1 piA linux-binary-6.1 +13.9 MB <none> 6.19.13-1 piA linux-image-6.19 +16.4 kB <none> 6.19.13-1 piA linux-modules-6. +110 MB <none> 6.19.13-1 and while "apt changelog" lists "linux (6.19.13-1)" first, apt-listchanges lists it almost at the end! # grep '^linux' /tmp/apt-listchanges-tmp0ngprxlb.txt linux (6.19.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium linux (6.19.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium linux (6.19.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium linux (6.19.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium linux (6.19.6-2) unstable; urgency=high linux (6.19.6-1) unstable; 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