[Aptitude-devel] Bug#492432: aptitude: fetch and display copyright (like changelog)

[David Kalnischkies]

Hi Mike,

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 03:07:26AM -0700, Mike Gerow wrote:
> Hi folks, this bug is almost 8 (!) years old. I've started looking into the
> implementation to see if I can thro a patch together but wanted to make sure
> this is something the aptitude team would still want.

Ideally, this would be implemented in libapt directly. It nowadays
sports a pkgAcqChangelog which deals with most of the complexity around
changelogs including the constructing the URI (as different archives
have different storage places and such) [which from a casual look seem
not to be used by aptitude which constructs the URI on its own (for
Debian only)].

A good way to deal with this hence might perhaps be to fully adopt
pkgAcqChangelog in aptitude, mostly copy pkgAcqChangelog and paste as
pkgAcqCopyright in libapt (src:apt) and copy&paste the changelog-code in
aptitude to deal with copyright [Bonuspoints if abstraction is used
instead of copy&paste].

I can't speak for the aptitude team of course, but at least for the apt
team and I would be happy to help on the apt side. If you are interested
feel free to ask me (DonKult), us (deity at lists.debian.org) and/or on IRC
(#debian-apt – where apt & aptitude people hang out together)!


Best regards

David Kalnischkies
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