Bug#606513: release-notes: Incorrect apt config file path

[Geoff Shang <geoff@QuiteLikely.com>]

Package: release-notes
Severity: normal

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In the Ix86 version of the Squeeze Release Notes (at least) at 
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/, several 
references are made to changing apt config options.  The user is told 
that they can change these options in /etc/apt/apt.conf.  But no such 
file exists on my Lenny system, and neither does it on that of a friend 
running Syd, so chances are it doesn't in Squeeze either.

Instead, there is /etc/apt/apt.conf.d which contains a number of files 
but nowhere obvious to specify the suggested directives.

I've yet to read the entire document, but have found this problem in 
chapters 2 and 4.  In particular, I'd like to disable the apparently new 
behaviour of automatically installing recommended packages, but I don't 
know where this directive should be specified.

Geoff.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.7
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash