Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> NEWS.Debian? >> >> Or/and a debconf question of higher priority? > > Well, a debconf note looks to me as a workaround for people who don't > have apt-listchanges installed (due to ignorance), since this is purely > informational---no user input needed. But that would also work...
Previously, you wrote: > If I understand you correctly, Frank, you are proposing to give the > current setup to fresh installations and have the stuff world-writable > for those continuously upgrading, right? That would be a way to reduce > complaints, for sure... You did understand me correctly, but I reconsidered. I guess people who install a TeX system first will face the same problem, and will find that the system just doesn't work. And apt-listchanges doesn't display NEWS files for packages that were never installed. Furthermore, upon upgrade from sarge (without tex-common) to etch, tex-common's NEWS file won't be displayed. Therefore I think a debconf not is the only way to address everybody we want to. We can still copy the content to NEWS, or keep it in README. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
