Fwd: Loading pathlists and changelogs

[Anders F Björklund]

Last year, we talked about pathlists and changelogs...

> Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>
>>> Currently pathlist and changelog are not implemented
>>> for non-installed packages (i.e. they just return [])
>>
>> I've skimmed through your mail, but I don't see a list of
>> use cases, and what in the current mechanism isn't
>> supporting them.
>>
>> Can you please provide some more details about these?
>
> When trying to view the pathlist or changelog of a
> package that is available in a RPM-MD or APT-DEB
> repository, but not currently installed on the system,
> the list of files or changelog entries is "blank".
>
> The discussion is about providing a way to load the
> information from the repository, without installing.
> So you would click the Content/Changelog tabs, it
> would fetch the data, and then show it to you... ?

So, should pathlist be available to uninstalled packages ?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/264996 (rpm-md)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/264996 (apt-deb)

Or should changelog be available to uninstalled packages ?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/253917 (rpm-md)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/264998 (apt-deb)


Otherwise it will only be available to installed packages,
and be empty for the available packages (not read from meta).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/245338 (rpm-sys)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/265014 (deb-sys)

And we close the first three bugs with a "Won't Fix" ?
The last two are currently scheduled for 1.3 inclusion...

--anders