[BUG] Regresion: getting messages with deletion even the content still seems to be there #104
Description
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Describe the bug.
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Using version 3.31.0 I started receiving many emails that said the content was deleted. I set additions_only: true and I still get the emails because it says more than 75% of the content was changed (removed, in my case).
Steps to reproduce.
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bug.
I have this job that shows problem:
---
name: New NVIDIA driver series available on graphics-drivers PPA
url: http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/n/
additions_only: true
filters:
- html2text: strip_tags
- re.findall:
pattern: 'nvidia-graphics-drivers-(.*?)\/'
repl: \1
- re.findall: '(?m)(^.*$)(?!\n.+)'
- striplines:
Expected behavior.
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Should not receive any emails without change.
Screen scrape/screenshots.
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logging.
Version info.
Please run webchanges --detailed-versions and paste the output here.
➜ ~/webchanges/bin/webchanges --detailed-version
Software:
• webchanges: 3.31.0
• CPython: 3.13.3 ('main', 'Jun 16 2025 18:15:32') GCC 14.2.0
• SQLite: 3.46.1
Installed PyPi dependencies:
• cssselect: 1.3.0
• h2: 4.2.0
• html2text: 2025.4.15
• httpx: 0.28.1
- anyio: 4.9.0
- certifi: 2025.7.14
- idna: 3.10
• lxml: 6.0.0
• markdown2: 2.5.4
• msgpack: 1.1.1
• platformdirs: 4.3.8
• pyyaml: 6.0.2
• zstandard: 0.23.0
Additional context.
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I put in my crontab to run two instances of webchanges:
*/30 * * * * ~/.local/bin/webchanges > /dev/null 2>&1
*/30 * * * * ~/webchanges/bin/webchanges --database ~/webchanges/database.db --cache ~/webchanges/cache.db > /dev/null 2>&1
The version installed in the system using pip is 3.30. The version under ~/webchanges (I used virtualenv to do that) is 3.31.0.
I can check what version sent the email because the version is in the footer, and always is 3.31.