Bug#372077: use NEWS.Debian
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:09:31PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:01:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > One way to fix this would be to promote apt-listchanges to standard
> > priority so it's available everywhere and add a NEWS.Debian entry for
> > the issue.
>
> I would love this personally. I feel like apt-listchanges should be
> standard, and to be honest, I'm sick of telling newbies in #debian to
> install it. That it would solve this bug is the cherry on top.
If it is important that it be displayed prior to the upgrade, and give the
user a chance to abort it, then debconf seems more approriate. If it's
sufficient to notify the user after the fact that they need to verify their
system, then this would be better suited to something like update-notifier.
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- mdz
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