Thanks for starting this discussion, Christian; I had planned to do so myself within a few days.
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:49:41AM +0530, Christian Perrier wrote: > From Bug#456977: > Steve Langasek commented while closing this bug report: > > It is recommended that you use apt-listchanges on your system, to be > > notified of package behavior changes such as this. > Could we consider increasign the priority of apt-listchanges so that > it is installed by default? > More and more developers use NEWS.Debian to communicate about > disruptive package changes but that doesn't really help if the tools > that warn users are not insalled by default. Further to this, we have the position of the debconf maintainers that debconf notes should *not* be used for unconditionally sending notices to users on upgrade. It's fairly important then that there is a reliable method to deliver such messages to users by default, and it's my understanding that apt-listchanges is that chosen method. Supporting this by default means raising the package priority so that it's installed by default. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
