On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 15:55:02 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: David Kalnischkies 2019-07-09 <20190709133107.gvib2ibj6w36j447@crossbow> > > A Release file can declare that it will "soon" change its the value of > > a field to foo and apt clients can notify users about this so > > Fwiw, I think this is seriously overengineered. We can't really test > it, and there's high chances the feature will break (itself or > something else) more than it might fix in practise. > Definitely agreed.
I think overall what you're trying to do here (the whole "notify the user they're out of date" thing) does not belong in apt. IMO it belongs in higher level tools that are going to heavily depend on the use case and so there's not really a good generic answer you can come up with at the lowest (apt) level. Cheers, Julien
