Bug#1117685: apt: consider running apt-listchanges after finishing package upgrades
Control: reassign -1 apt-listchanges
On 9 October 2025 19:57:35 CEST, Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> wrote:
>Package: apt
>Version: 3.0.3
>Severity: wishlist
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>When running `apt upgrade', `apt-listchanges' is run after packages are
>downloaded and before they are actually upgraded. The downloading phase
>can be quite long, especially when upgrading from one major Debian
>version to the next and I may attend to other things during that time,
>and when I come back, I found the upgrade was stuck in displaying the
>news from packages by `apt-listchanges', and after quitting, I'll have
>to wait another long time until the upgrades finish.
>
>As `apt-listchanges' just displays the news from packages, and does not
>offer a way to stop or postpone package upgrades, I wonder whether it
>would be possible to run it after packages are upgraded, so that people
>like me won't be surprised that we'll have to wait for another long
>time. I know there are unattended upgrade options, but for upgrading
>from one major version to the next, it would be better to monitor the
>process somehow which would benefit more from this since the process can
>be quite long.
>
>-- System Information:
>Debian Release: 13.1
> APT prefers stable-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
>Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
>Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
>Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
>Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
>Versions of packages apt depends on:
>ii adduser 3.152
>ii base-passwd 3.6.7
>ii debian-archive-keyring 2025.1
>ii libapt-pkg7.0 3.0.3
>ii libc6 2.41-12
>ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19
>ii libseccomp2 2.6.0-2
>ii libssl3t64 3.5.1-1+deb13u1
>ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19
>ii libsystemd0 257.8-1~deb13u2
>ii sqv 1.3.0-3
>
>Versions of packages apt recommends:
>ii ca-certificates 20250419
>
>Versions of packages apt suggests:
>pn apt-doc <none>
>ii aptitude 0.8.13-7
>ii dpkg-dev 1.22.21
>ii gnupg 2.4.7-21
>pn powermgmt-base <none>
>ii synaptic 0.91.7
>
>-- no debconf information
>
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sent from my phone, excuse the brevity, if any
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