On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:23, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:53:26PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:58:18PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > > I hate debconf notices, personally. I feel this is exactly a case for > > > NEWS.Debian (yes, I'm a happy apt-listchanges user... - IMHO that tool > > > belongs installed by default). > > > > While I think NEWS.Debian is the right approach, the fact that > > apt-listchanges isn't installed by default is deterring me from relying > > on it. I'd like this not to be the case in the long term. > > > > Is apt-listchanges still not installed by default in sarge? If not, why > > not? > > For the same reason that other packages that sometimes seem like a good idea > by default are not. That is, they don't meet the definition for Priority: > standard. > I would've thought that if debconf meets the definition of 'standard' or 'important' (it's Priority), apt-listchanges (in the NEWS.Debian role) merits equal status. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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