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Re: NEWS.Debian support is here



On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:30:27PM +0100, Paul Hedderly wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:01:14AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Thanks to Matt Zimmerman and Joe Drew, apt-listchanges will now display
> > NEWS.Debian entries for upgraded packages. They're displayed before the
> > regular changelog entries, and Matt plans to later let it be configured
> > to only display news, if the user wants (more useful for stable users).
> 
> All that's missing is an automatic debconf notice entry for each NEWS
> item.
> 
> That wud be well c00l.

As I recall, part of the idea of NEWS.Debian was to prevent having this kind
of information end up as debconf notes.

-- 
 - mdz



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