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Bug#535285: marked as done (apt: should suggest apt-listchanges)

Your message dated Thu, 13 Aug 2015 21:48:08 +0200
with message-id <20150813194808.GA11867@crossbow>
and subject line Re: apt: should suggest apt-listchanges
has caused the Debian Bug report #535285,
regarding apt: should suggest apt-listchanges
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--- Begin Message --- 
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

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:32:11PM +0300, Török Edwin wrote:
> apt should Suggest: or Recommend: apt-listchanges.
> It is useful to show the NEWS file before installing packages.

No, while it is useful to read them it isn't required for apt – its
required for the user, which is why it is in the default installation
set nowadays.

If we would recommend/suggests it in apt there would only be a bugreport
about dropping this unneeded dependencies coming… so closing as wontfix.
Every normal user will have it installed anyway now by the default
install which is the better way of getting this installed for users.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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