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Re: Advice on how best to handle non-backwards compatibility



On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:12:03PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

> A consent would be to have apt-listchanges not display the Debian
> changelog, but only the relevant portion of NEWS.Debian. But then
> there would be no substantial difference between clicking
> apt-listchanges output away and clicking a debconf note away.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222362

Actually there would be quite a nice difference, which is that there would
be only one note displayed with information for all packages, rather than
many.

Of course, having packages display notes only when absolutely necessary is
something that needs to be reviewed for sarge.

-- 
 - mdz



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