Bug#609967: allow archive maintainers to set messages that get shown upon apt-get update

[jidanni@jidanni.org]

X-debbugs-Cc: mh@glandium.org, rfrancoise@debian.org
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.10
Severity: wishlist

Gentlemen, whenever an archive maintainer makes some big changes, the
way users find out about it is almost always through some error message
during apt-get update, or aptitude update, etc.

So then they start poking around trying to find what when wrong.

What there ought to be is some way for maintainers to place some message
somewhere that will show up in lieu or addition to the apt error
messages.

E.g.,
"Big changes in the Nurdsberg archives, see http://nurdsberg.example.org/";

"Mom confiscated my computer. See http://turdsberg.example.org/ for the
new site instructions."

"I quit. You're on your own."