On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:

> I've scanned through this list and found quite a lot of packages I never
> read an announcement of. I usually read debian-{devel,changes,user,private}
> so I take it I should have found this announcements. But I never have. Did I
> just miss them? Or is there a problem with the announcements?

The 'xx New Debian i386 Packages' mail *is* the announcement I
mentioned earlier.  Some developers also post the .changes file when
they upload it, but that's at their option.  It really isn't
necessary.

I plan to make several improvements to the announcement format this
weekend:
        - description given for new packages
        - urgency field prominent
        - better summary paragraph which lists packages of high urgency
        - sorted by stable, unstable, contrib, non-free
Any other suggestions?


Guy


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