Bug#372077: Scary message on new installations
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:43:27PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:53:56PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> > Right, but it might be a sufficient hint so that aptitude, and maybe apt,
> > will do the right thing.
>
> This change *will* be sufficient to allow aptitude and apt to do the right
> thing *in a greater number of cases*. Just how large a coverage this will
> give, I can't say -- the only good way to find out is to try it and see what
> upgrade testers have to say about it.
>
> > Ok... I'll lower the priority of the note to medium and add the
> > xserver-xfree86 dummy package. Hopefully that'll be sufficient. As
> > discussed elsewhere, I'd prefer to use NEWS.Debian, but it won't be shown
> > to the user in this case, so a medium priority debconf abusing note should
> > suffice.
>
> What do you mean, "in this case"? I don't see why NEWS.Debian is any less
> appropriate here than in other cases. Is there some concern about
> apt-listchanges not listing NEWS files for newly-installed packages?
>
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