On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:11:20AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Your scheme works, but at least tell the sys admin what is going on with > > a debconf note. > > > > If you don't want to be bugged change the debconf priority. > > I've got it set to "high". Apparently a number of maintainers think that > every little thing is of "high" importance.
You should file bug reports against those. > There is already a standard, reliable way of communicating package > changes to the admin. Amazingly enough, it's called a "changelog". I > usually find them under /usr/share/doc/<packagename>/... We can't really expect the admins to parse through hundreds of changelogs; README.Debian would be a good place, though. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.