I think it would be great if cron-apt would run apt-listchanges on
updated packages after downloading them.  What do you think?

I can't really think of how to best implement that, though.  If you have
any suggestions, but don't feel like doing it yourself, let me know and
I'll take a crack at it.

Bonus points if your suggested implementation is compatible with both
apt-get and aptitude as the APTCOMMAND. :)

- Marc

Hello

I'm not really sure what you want to do. Can't you hook apt-listchanges
to apt-get?

I have a patch for that. Problem is that apt-get and aptitute is not
command line argument compatible.

Regards,

// Ola

Ola Lundqvist wrote:

I want the mail I get nightly from cron-apt to include the
apt-listchanges output for the updated packages.  The standard
apt-get/apt-listchanges integration only runs apt-listchanges when I'm
actually upgrading, not when the packages are just downloaded by cron-apt.

Yeah, I know, I wrote the patch. :)

- Marc

Hello

I think it is better to patch apt in this case as it will be very
difficult to modify cron-apt to do this...

Doh! And my memory for names is very bad... :(

Is it possible to hook on aptitude?

Regards,

// Ola

clone #288763 -1
severity -1 wishlist
reassign -1 apt-listchanges
retitle -1 apt-listchanges: show changes in packages that only have been downloaded
submitter -1 mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de
clone #288763 -2
severity -2 wishlist
reassign -2 apt
retitle -2 apt-get: call apt-listchanges on download-only
submitter -2 mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de
clone #288763 -3
severity -3 wishlist
reassign -3 apt
retitle -3 aptitude: call apt-listchanges on download-only
submitter -3 mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de
thanks

I agree.

I think it would be a good idea to have this handled by
apt-listchanges, apt-get or aptitude.

For apt-listchanges, this could be implemented by having a command
line option that lists all changes for all packages that can be found
in /var/cache/apt/archives.

For apt-get and aptitude, I suspect that this would need to be
configuratble somewhere in the apt configuration (maybe even in a
library so that a single change cares for apt-get and aptitude
respectively), but I do not have enough clue to judge that. The idea
is to call apt-listchanges even if apt-get/aptitude were called with
--download-only.

I am cloning this bug to apt-listchanges, apt and aptitude.
Maintainers of these packages, please feel free to close your instance
of your bug if you find the fix inappopriate for your package.

Marc Haber wrote:

For the record, I'm now using apticron instead of cron-apt, and it
handles this quite nicely. So my interest in this bug is purely academic
now.

- Marc

Since this OP has found another apt cron package to serve his needs,
I've tagged this bug as wontfix.