On 2024-04-20 19:40:16 +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > fwiw my understanding is that release-notes should be used less often, than > NEWS.Debian because > - it only covers stable-to-stable upgrades (i doubt many unstable users > read it at all - certainly at the moment i don't think there is any single > post-bookworm content) > - release-notes will only be ready once, on stable upgrades, whereas > NEWS.Debian might be more useful for people tracking unstable (personally i > would hope everything in release-notes is covered in NEWS.Debian for that > reason!) > - release-notes is meant to be understandable by less experienced > non-technical "users" (all documentation should of course aim for that, in > theory) > - NEWS.Debian is "opt-in": if you install apt-listchanges you'll see > NEWS.Debian, but that package isnt installed by the default. Even fewer > users will read the changelog (although apt-listchanges can email that as > well)
As a user of both Debian/stable and Debian/unstable machines, I have apt-listchanges installed on all machines, but this is most useful for Debian/unstable (I also have a quick look at the changelog). I don't remember about the release notes with stable upgrades. BTW, during the package upgrade, if there are /etc/profile.d files that were sourced but that will no longer be, I think that the user should specifically be warned about them. I'm also wondering whether some message should be output on the standard error if there are *.sh files that do not satisfy the regexp (but run-parts cannot do that). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
