On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:39:43 -0500, "Helmut K. C. Tessarek"
<tessa...@evermeet.cx> wrote:
Both network "outages" could have been prevented by adding a note at the
end of the dist-upgrade output.
e.g. something like the following (monospace font required for the
"Attention" text):
_ _____ _____ _____ _ _ _____ ___ ___ _ _
/ \|_ _|_ _| ____| \ | |_ _|_ _/ _ \| \ | |
/ _ \ | | | | | _| | \| | | | | | | | | \| |
/ ___ \| | | | | |___| |\ | | | | | |_| | |\ |
/_/ \_\_| |_| |_____|_| \_| |_| |___\___/|_| \_|
Network interface name changed: please update config files before reboot.
Why would people who do not read the NEWS.Debian or the Release Notes
read that? And how would you solve the issue of people wanting more
and more of those attention banners?
While I agree that an *experienced* sysadmin would have caught that mistake
purely by previous experience with Debian, imagine for a second an end user or
fresh sysadmin.
Do me a favour and go to https://www.debian.org/, and tell me how many clicks
you needed to find the release notes. Now imagine you didn't know of their
existence. Would you still have stumbled upon them? Do you still believe that
level of sass in your response is warranted? From my experience with giving
support on the Debian IRC support channel most new users are not aware the
release notes exist.
Greetings
Marc
Greets,
Lee
P.S.: This failure mode isn't even documented in the release notes.
