Quoting Adam Borowski (2016-05-12 08:16:29) > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 01:54:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> If someone has time and willingness, reviewing the contents of >> NEWS.Debian across all packages for the stable -> testing delta >> before the release sounds like a very useful thing to do. > >>From what I've seen, this is very close to our problem with > Recommends: -- those pointless NEWS.Debian _do_ make sense "locally" > -- for a direct user of the package in question. If you're, say, > coding something with a library, you're interested when that library > changed its API in an incompatible way. On the other hand, if you > merely use something that depends on the library, you couldn't care > less. Perhaps that could be addressed by extending apt-listchanges with an option to take the APT auto-install flag into account (man apt-mark) and skip packages that are flagged as auto-installed. I would not use that myself (I find the current amount of NEWS items reasonable), but invite anyone who find such idea useful to (at least) file a bug against apt-listchanges. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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