Bug#535285: apt: should suggest apt-listchanges
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.21
Severity: normal
apt should Suggest: or Recommend: apt-listchanges.
It is useful to show the NEWS file before installing packages.
For example it would have warned me that I now need to pin i386 packages after
the ia32 transition (though IMHO it should have pinned them automatically
if that is required not to replace amd64 packages with newer i386 packages).
Instead I found out that I need to do this by accidentally
browsing debian-devel.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::Update "";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke "";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke:: "[ ! -x /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/mangle ] || cat /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages | /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/mangle --index >/dev/null";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Cache-Limit "250165824";
APT::Default-Release "unstable";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:::: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/localepurge ] && [ $(ps w -p $PPID | grep -c remove) != 1 ]; then /usr/sbin/localepurge; else exit 0; fi";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: wine
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 990
Package: libnss-mdns
Pin: version 0
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: avahi-daemon
Pin: version 0
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable-i386
Pin-Priority: 400
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing-i386
Pin-Priority: 400
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable-i386
Pin-Priority: 400
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20080926-09:35]/ lenny main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20080926-09:35]/ lenny main
deb ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
#deb-src ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
#deb-src ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'transitional-i386'), (500, 'transitional'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'unstable-i386'), (400, 'stable-i386'), (1, 'experimental-i386'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.9-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-10 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1+b1 terminal-based package manager
ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.10.4 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii synaptic 0.62.7 Graphical package manager
-- no debconf information
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