N.B. apt-listchanges has been upgraded to 4.1 in experimental with some
significant fixes, so if you're testing 4.0, please upgrade to 4.1, and
if you're not testing yet, what are you waiting for? ;-)
Thanks to everyone who has tested and helped identify the issues fixed
in 4.1!
Thanks,
jik
On 10/8/23 11:27, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
Hello friends,
I've adopted apt-listchanges and pushed a new version, 4.0, to
experimental, with a bunch of fixes in it. Given how extensive the
changes are, I'd appreciate some testing from folks here before it
gets promoted to unstable. This package is widely used so it's kind of
important for us to get this right. ;-)
You can view the changelog.Debian.gz in the deb itself or here
<https://salsa.debian.org/debian/apt-listchanges/-/blob/4.0/debian/changelog>.
One thing you may notice is that because the method of tracking which
changelogs the user has already seen (see here
<https://salsa.debian.org/debian/apt-listchanges/-/blob/4.0/doc/design_notes/what_to_display.md>
or /usr/share/doc/apt-listchanges/what_to_display.html in the deb for
details), the database needs to be populated with data for existing
packages during upgrades, so the first time a package is upgraded
after the switch to the new method, it will be slightly slower. I have
a plan for addressing that but it hasn't been implemented yet (and
indeed, requires advice from folks here for me to get it right, so
I'll be sending another message after this one to ask for that advice).
Also, I'm still waiting on some translations, so you may notice some
English strings in foreign locales. There is no need to report this to
me, I'm aware.
Please file bugs, reply in this thread, or email me privately with any
feedback as you deem appropriate. If you try it out and everything's
fine and you can take a moment to email me and let me know that as
well, I'd appreciate it, since that'll give me confirmation that it's
gone through some testing by people other than me.
Thank you,
Jonathan Kamens