[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1042897: aptitude: viewing a package's changelog from the TUI outputs a warning that is immediately erased

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2023-08-03 16:52:07 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2023-08-02 15:51 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Package: aptitude
> > Version: 0.8.13-5
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > When I use "C" (View a package's changelog) on clang-15 from the
> > aptitude TUI, I get a warning that is immediately erased, so that
> > it is impossible to read it.
> >
> > I suppose that aptitude should redirect stderr from
> > aptitude-changelog-parser so that it can display its contents
> > (when non empty) in a clear way.
> 
> It should prevent these errors from showing up in the first place.

If aptitude knows what to do (or may ignore the issue), yes.

> See #967911, which has been tagged "pending" almost three years ago. :-(

I forgot about this one.

> Yes, the clang-15 changelog entry for version 1:15.0.7-2 is not properly
> terminated.

OK, I've just reported a bug for this:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1042997

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