Bug#605605: apt: uninteresting NEWS.Debian

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

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