On 2023-10-21 Jonathan Kamens <j...@kamens.us> wrote: > I just noticed this:
> On 10/21/23 01:39, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > *save_seen=none* > How did you end up with "save_seen=none" here? That's not the default, or at > least it shouldn't be if everything is working as it should. The default > setting is "save_seen=/var/lib/apt/listchanges". Hmm. [...] > If you made that config change, and you don't want to see duplicate > changelog entries, then you need to set it back to > "save_seen=/var/lib/apt/listchanges". If you didn't make that change, then > we need to figure out how it got made, and that's the bug that needs to be > fixed. Let me know. [...] I think I know why. During testing 4.x at one point in time I did a purge and reinstall and had to reanswer debconf questions and stumbled upon this: +--------------------------- | A record of already displayed changes can be kept in order to avoid | displaying them again. This is useful, for example, when retrying a | upgrade. | | Should apt-listchanges skip changes that have already been seen? +--------------------------- Which was rather mysterious to me. ;-) The only thing I could map to interaction with apt-listchanges was "This is useful, for example, when retrying a upgrade." - When doing an upgrade I am shown the changelog and can abort. If I abort and retry later I would want to be shown the new changelogs entries again since I want to know changes to be implemented, i.e. the difference between installed version and new version, no matter whether the entries were already shown in an aborted upgrade. So I understood this question was for this special subcase and answered accordingly. I did not expext for apt-listchanges having a mode when invoked by apt to always ancient changelogs. I gather my understanding was incorrect. ;-) However I still do not get it. * Is there a useful scenario where someone would set save_seen=none in the apt stanza? * Would I be reshown changelog entries when I had already seen them before but aborted the upgrade if save_seen=/var/lib/apt/listchanges was set? cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
