Hi Gergely, > I'm thinking about something along the lines of apt-listchanges (or > apt-listbugs, but I haven't used this last one in ages), which can > either mail the results to the user (which wouldn't make much sense in > this case, in my opinion), or display the results, and prompt the user > whether to abort the installation, or continue.
Like apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs, such a hook probably belongs into a separate package. As a side note, I see Lintian mostly as a development tool. The messages may not be helpful to users, but I would fully support this effort! Kind regards Felix Lechner