On 2019-04-03 02:02, Andy Smith wrote:
c) if getting warnings from "apt update" does seem to be an
effective final way to reach such users, would it be a good idea
to find a way to have apt tell them about their transition into
LTS?
So, sort of a variant on Pierre Fourès's suggestion? I like that. Additionally:c 2) a transition into LTS should probably be accompagnied with a default run of check-support-status
c 3) when requesting installation of unsupported packages, provide a warning
For c 3), this could be similar to when e.g. apt/apt-get pauses to ask due to dependencies, and overridable with the same options.
However, as Pierre says, this is quite a bit of extra work for package system developers/maintainers.
-- Cheers, Jan