[ Replying to both ]
Richard Lewis wrote:
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, 23:18 Santiago Vila, <sanv...@debian.org
<mailto:sanv...@debian.org>> wrote:
(I'd like to avoid spamming the users with non-important information)
[...]
- 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)
Thanks a lot for the detailed investigation!
I think the item I've quoted is key: I was afraid of spamming the users via
NEWS.Debian but as you point out, NEWS.Debian is an established channel for
exactly this kind of things.
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
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).
The last two items seem overkill to me, considering that we never promised
any given behaviour at all. In fact, the current behaviour is actually
undefined, we can't even tell for sure what is exactly what the user would
get (see #1069279 for details).
So, I'm going to try with NEWS.Debian first, and if that's not enough,
we'll ask release-notes editors to add a very small note about this.
Thanks.
