On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:40:10AM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 01:57:25PM BST, markus schnalke wrote: > > IMO, the problem is rather that the NEWS entries are not displayed by > > default. > > That's more or less what I meant. > > I wasn't aware of the requirement to put such information in the NEWS > file, actually I wasn't even aware of the requirement to create such > file in the first place. Since this is published in Debian Policy > which is aimed at maintainers and developers, the end user won't have > the first clue about it, unless (s)he reads the aforementioned policy > which, at least now, is not a prerequisite to use Debian ;^) > > Some packages use debconf to display such information. > How about using it instead?
That's actually not allowed by policy, and for a good reason: if every package that changed its config files prompted the user with something as "we changed a lot, re-read documentation and adjust everything to your needs. sorry.", you, as an end user, would do hundreds of hits on OK buttons during dist-upgrades without any real advantage. I recommend installing apt-listchanges which has been promoted to priority standard in early 2009. It's a pretty well designed way of knowing what actually happens during (partial) upgrades. Our (end-user) release notes should recommend it. Don't remember if they do. Hauke [0] http://bugs.debian.org/516387 -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahm <j...@debian.org> www.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `. `'` Member of the Linux Foundation www.linux.com `- Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe www.fsfe.org
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
