Package: apt-listchanges Version: 3.27 Severity: normal Under the documentation for the --which option in the apt-listchanges man page, it claims, "The default is to display only news." I agree that this _should_ be the default, but in fact it does not appear to be. With no configuration changes to the stock apt-listchanges installation, if you run apt-listchanges on a deb file it gives you the changelog entries, not the news entries. Personally I think the correct fix here is to make news the default, not change the man page.
Reportbug tells me that this package is currently unmaintained. I have not been directly involved with Debian in the past, but I maintain numerous open-source packages and am interested in getting more involved, and this seems like a good opportunity for me to do that, if someone who is already involved and has more cred than I do is able to confirm, "Yeah, the change you're proposing sounds reasonable, go ahead and give it a shot." I would rather not spend the time to ramp up if the change is just going to be rejected. -- Package-specific info: ==> /etc/apt/listchanges.conf <== [apt] frontend=pager which=news email_address=root email_format=text confirm=false headers=false reverse=false save_seen=/var/lib/apt/listchanges.db -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on: ii apt 2.7.3 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82 ii python3 3.11.4-5+b1 ii python3-apt 2.6.0 ii python3-debconf 1.5.82 ii sensible-utils 0.0.20 ii ucf 3.0043+nmu1 apt-listchanges recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt-listchanges suggests: ii chromium [www-browser] 116.0.5845.140-1 ii firefox-mozilla-build [www-browser] 117.0.1-0ubuntu1 ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.49.99-1 ii google-chrome-stable [www-browser] 117.0.5938.92-1 ii links [www-browser] 2.29-1 ii lynx [www-browser] 2.9.0dev.12-1 ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.8.2-1 ii python3-gi 3.46.0-1 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3+git20230121-2 -- debconf information excluded
