On Sun, 11 May 1997, Ian Jackson wrote: > > It would be useful if the kind of information sent to the debian-changes > > mailing list were integrated into dpkg. For available updated packages, a > > user > > could use information about the number and Urgency: of each intervening > > update. > > Also useful would be access to the developer's comments on each upgrade. > > I can see why this would be useful. However, there is the problem of > transferring all of this data to the user's system. > > The more information we try to provide the user with the more they > will have to download for each package that they choose not to install > or upgrade. > > In this particular case, I'm unconvinced that supplying the user with > the whole change history of a package is a reasonable thing to > attempt.
IMHO, a parser for the "Last week's uploads into i386" files regularly posted to debian-(devel-)changes would be ideal. Then you create another mailing list to house these announcements only, and make dpkg remove the old info when the package is upgraded. -- Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
