Package: apt-listchanges Severity: wishlist Hello,
It appears that although apt-listchanges allows sorting changelog entries based on urgency, it doesn't have a way to select or filter based on urgency. There are a few instances where I would find this very useful, but the main one is for examining changes in packages prior to deciding to install them. For example, apticron is a utility that uses apt-listchanges to nag an administrator to install updates. I use this on my virtual private server so it can tell me when I should install updates by logging in via secure shell. Especially since my server is running Trixie/testing for right now, updates are very frequent but the changes are most often unimportant to my usage. I would only like to be nagged to install updates with urgency that is high or greater. The apt-listchanges manual page specifies that one can define "profiles" in the configuration file so that, when apt-listchanges is invoked by different callers, its output can be tailored appropriately. If only apt-listchanges had a "minimum_urgency" key, I could define that changelogs for apticron should only be displayed with high or greater urgency. Please note that the version in experimental is the same, although I see it has been heavily reworked and kudos to you for taking up the package! This is also different from #939287 in that this bug is about using urgency as a filter or selector so that some changelogs don't get shown, whereas that bug is about formatting and sorting the output to help make it easy to read for humans. If you prepare a change, I'll be happy to give it a whirl before you upload it if you want a tester. Thanks, John -- 🌐 Homepage https://johnscott.me 🪪 Contact info • as a vCard: https://johnscott.me/me/me.vcf • as an LDAP directory entry: ldap://johnscott.me/CN=John%20Scott,DC=johnscott,DC=me
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