fwiw i'd appreciate a NEWS.Debian entry as well, it's too easy to miss messages from postinst - much better to have it somewhere people can read at their convenience (and apt-list-changes send the NEWS by email) than scrolling by - i imagine unattended-upgrades doesnt even show people those messages anyway
(and i say this as someone who very likely doesnt need to take any action as a result ) On Thu, 13 Jul 2023, 19:21 Andres Salomon, <dilin...@queued.net> wrote: > > Our packaging also still creates /etc/chromium/master_preferences. So the > first thing we need to do is switch that to initial_preferences. The next > thing we need to do is to warn users about the change, in case they're > supplying their own initial config override. A NEWS entry seems like > overkill considering the vast majority of users don't care about it, so I'm > thinking what would make the most sense would be to either modify > debianization/master-preferences.patch to spit out a warning if > master_preferences is detected, or have the package's postinst script check > for the file and spit out a warning. The former option would only be seen > the first time chromium is run, while the latter would be seen every time > an upgrade is done (and could automatically rename master_preferences to > initial_preferences if initial_preferences doesn't already exist). >
