Re: Improvement of headless server upgrades
Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 04:06:56PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:39:43 -0500, "Helmut K. C. Tessarek"
>> <tessarek@evermeet.cx> wrote:
>> >Both network "outages" could have been prevented by adding a note at the
>> >end of the dist-upgrade output.
>> >
>> >e.g. something like the following (monospace font required for the
>> >"Attention" text):
>> >
>> > _ _____ _____ _____ _ _ _____ ___ ___ _ _
>> > / \|_ _|_ _| ____| \ | |_ _|_ _/ _ \| \ | |
>> > / _ \ | | | | | _| | \| | | | | | | | | \| |
>> > / ___ \| | | | | |___| |\ | | | | | |_| | |\ |
>> >/_/ \_\_| |_| |_____|_| \_| |_| |___\___/|_| \_|
>> >
>> >Network interface name changed: please update config files before reboot.
>>
>> Why would people who do not read the NEWS.Debian or the Release Notes
>> read that? And how would you solve the issue of people wanting more
>> and more of those attention banners?
>
> Presumably because it will be written directly to their terminal.
apt install apt-listchanges
Bjørn
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