On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 09:32:47PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Maybe the next time he uses apt*, somehow the system should tell him... > > Somehow, but how exactly?
fwiw I intend to have apt print a notice at the end of each 'apt(-get) update' call if certain conditions are met in bookworm. My branch with details can be found here: https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/merge_requests/282 It is marked Draft as I mainly need to a) figure out which firmware packages from bullseye (will have been) moved in bookworm to non-free-firmware for one of my targeted scenarios and b) have a reasonably detailed entry in the release notes to link to explaining what to actually do as I really don't want to get into details in a one-line message… will be hard enough to cover all bases in a few paragraphs after all. A stub for the release-notes can be found in https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/138 although as I noted in a comment there I would prefer a more detailed §5 entry rather than linking to a rather short §4. The code isn't exactly rocket-science (although a bit lengthy) & as I am reusing already existing messages it could theoretically be backported to bullseye and pushed in a stable update so that users would see it while upgrading instead of on some run after the upgrade, but for the moment I am not planing to push for that. I might have if someone had shown any interest in the idea months ago[0]. The message is rather cryptic, but its intent is to catch unaware sid/testing users and those stable users who don't read release notes, so that is borderline okay. If the goalpost is instead moved to every user of Debian the messages should really not be that cryptic, but that would mean more work & more diff (not just by me, but e.g. translators). At this point in time it seems better to focus this energy on the release notes. Or, on discussing if gmake users are affected, too, … Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/10/msg00217.html
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