On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 12:59:10AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I don't think people read more the NEWS than the changelog.
I'm not sure how you arrive at that conclusion, but here's a consideration: it's my company's policy that the NEWS are read during every upgrade of a client system (and our own) to catch surprises like this. It is a good example of exactly what NEWS files are for. Popcon also suggests that 85% of respondents have apt-listchanges installed, which is the package giving this behaviour. So I disagree with your statement that it is a waste of time documenting a surprising behaviour change like this. As Micah demonstrates, local administrators upgrading may already have a mechanism to deal with the problem and your cron job will conflict with that. > Having run puppet on a small virtual machine with 40 GB disk, and having > it taken down by 800 MB reports every day for every compute in the > cluster, no, this isn't controversial. This is completely mandatory. > What I believe puppet user do is set this up by themselves, or disable > reports all together. Keeping 1 month of reports is very conservative. I don't disagree with the problem statement. Thanks, -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51