Re: How to best reach the users of a package?
Scripsit Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org>
> Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. But, ehm, since news bits can be
> classified per source package, they could be generated once a day, fed
> to dak and friends, in the pool and pushed to the mirrors.
I wonder how much it would confuse apt and its friends if we simply
piggybacked the information onto the Packages records by adding a new
field (with the entire text or just an URL), but without bumping the
version number.
That would give us the mirror distribution and user-pushing mechanism
for free. Dak would need code to merge in the news, and (probably)
apt-listchanges would need code to extract it. At the next upload, the
message would move to NEWS.Debian, so the packages file would not be
burdened indefinitely.
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