Re: Improvement of headless server upgrades

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de> writes:
> On 05.03.25 17:16, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> apt install apt-listchanges
>
> To be fair, apt-listchanges lists a whole lot of changes, esp. when
> you do a dist-upgrade.
>
> Noticing the one change among the umpteen more-or-less-major NEWS
> entries that actually affects the ability of your system to safely
> reboot with the same network configuration is not a trivial task, even
> for reasonably experienced sysadmins.

I agree. But I don't see what makes the proposal any better.

We can (and do, AFAIK) discuss which items belong in NEWS.  But there
are many more-or-less-major changes which might require attention when
you do a dist-upgrade. Filtering this list down to one or two items is
not realistic. And prefixing the list with ATTENTION won't make the job
any easier.


Bjørn