On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 22:47 -0500, Christopher Martin wrote: > tags 344947 pending > stop > > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 15:35, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Package: kdm > > Version: 4:3.4.2-4 > > Severity: normal > > > > I recently upgraded from 3.3 to 3.4 in testing. There is a > > NEWS.Debian entry about KDM (and some other things), but it was not > > displayed. I have enables apt-listchanges, and in the same upgrade I > > did get NEWS items about other packages. > > > > I've seen this with other packages, and it is usually the result of > > some misformatting of the entry, which is supposed to follow the same > > format as the changelogs. The format looks OK to me, but perhaps the > > problem is that the line identifying the version names kdebase rather > > than kdm as the package. Since the NEWS.Debian file was installed > > under /usr/share/doc/kdm/ and not under /usr/share/doc/kdebase/, > > perhaps that is causing the confusion. > > > > This would be good to fix, as displaying the appropriate NEWS items is > > the way to put critical upgrade information where people will have > > trouble missing it. > > Quite right. > > It seems that apt-listchanges works if the NEWS is installed in all binary > packages from a given source, so I've made the necessary packagine changes > (which will be present in the next upload). Many packages also ship their > NEWS this way, so it's hardly without precedent. > > Cheers, > Christopher Martin Thanks for fixing that. I wonder if this merits a bug or wishlist against apt-listchanges. Granted that the "ship NEWS with all packages" is common, it still seems reasonable to have binary packages ship individual NEWS files and have apt-listchanges report them rather than ignore them. In the present case, somebody can have KDE without KDM; notifying such a person about changes to KDM is at best a waste and at worst a source of possible confusion.
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