Re: adduser default for sgid home directories
Matt Barry wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-07-25 at 14:37 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:34:31PM -0400, Matt Barry wrote:
> > > Anyway, its been released at this point, so the issue is moot :)
> >
> > Regardless of the rest of the discussion, this isn't entirely true.
> > Yes, people following unstable will have already seen the NEWS entry
> > and
> > apt-listchanges won't show it again for that version, but it's still
> > possible to edit it retroactively so that (for example) people
> > upgrading
> > between stable releases see improved text. That can sometimes be
> > worthwhile.
> >
>
> That is a good point, and probably something we should plan to do.
In particular, it may make sense to edit this NEWS entry and the
previous one, to avoid presenting two entries to stable users for two
different successive changes, rather than just one effective change.
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