Control: reassign -1 release-notes On 2023-02-01 08:30 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: general > > The average user will not notice his firmware is not updating any more. Unless they pay close attention to apt(itude)'s messages, that is probably true. > So he must do Google Search. > https://www.google.com/search?q=debian+firmware+non-free > which leads to > https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware > which says > ...a new repository component non-free-firmware... > > So that means he needs to add it to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ > Ah ha! The release notes for Bookworm should and will certainly mention that. I think this is where this bug is actually actionable, so I am reassigning it there. > Yes, he should be regularly subscribed to debian-user, but that's too > much. I have sent a heads-up message[1] there a few days ago, but as you said it got lost in all the other topics discussed there. > Or https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/, but that's too many boring > messages too. There was not even a prominent notice there, at least not in the past few weeks. > Yes, he uses apt-listchanges, but that won't tell him this. > > So I'm saying that Debian needs a mechanism to have his computer tell > him to do this. > > Maybe the next time he uses apt*, somehow the system should tell him... Somehow, but how exactly? Good question that was brought up on debian-devel[2], alas without replies yet. Cheers, Sven 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/01/msg00706.html 2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/01/msg00312.html
