Bug 53793

Summary:	get changelog not only from pkglist, but from rpm db, too (for installed pkgs)
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component:	apt	Assignee:	placeholder <placeholder>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	boyarsh, glebfm, imz, ldv, placeholder, vt
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux

Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2025-04-09 14:47:28 MSK

I've installed apt by rpm (or from a task repo that has no changelogs in pkglist).

The shown changelog is empty:

$ rpm -q apt
apt-0.5.15lorg2-alt90.p10.1.x86_64
$ apt-get changelog apt
Чтение списков пакетов... Завершено
Построение дерева зависимостей... Завершено
Changelog for apt:

$

In apt, some other data is merged from pkglist and from rpm db. The same could be done for the changelogs of installed packages. (And for file lists, and let's have a look what else.)

And it might be not a good idea to take extra space in the memory for this (in the package cache): rpm db can always be queried for this extra info (like changelogs, files, descriptions -- not needed for dependency resolution).