Bug#605605: apt: uninteresting NEWS.Debian
Hi Jakub,
Jakub Wilk wrote:
> NEWS.Debian includes these:
>
> | * Already included in the last version but now with better documentation
> | is the possibility to add/prefer different compression types while
> | downloading archive information, which can decrease the time needed for
> | update on slow machines. See apt.conf (5) manpage for details.
> | * APT manages his manpage translations now with po4a, thanks to Nicolas
> | François and Kurasawa Nozomu, who also provide the ja translation.
> | Thanks to Christian Perrier we have already a fr translation and
> | a few more are hopefully added in the near future.
> | * This version also introduces some _experimental_ configuration options
> | to make more aggressive use of dpkg's triggers. If you want to help
> | testing these _experimental_ options see apt.conf (5) manpage.
>
> None of them look newsworthy to me. Could they be removed from
> NEWS.Debian? Thanks for considering.
I agree with the thought, but it seems like water under the bridge now
since squeeze has been released. Do you mind if I close this?
Alternatively, if you would like apt's NEWS.Debian to set a good
example (which sounds like a nice thing to do), can you suggest a
patch?
Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan
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