On this front, I've been thinking it would be better to use
apt-listchanges --profile option, ie use --profile=apticron and allow
end-users to pick the output they desire that way. with defaults
somewhat like:
[apticron]
which=both
headers=1
I presume such a solution would be acceptable?
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:09:31PM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote:
> Package: apticron
> Version: 1.1.7
> Severity: normal
>
> Congratulations on finally getting this into the archive! :)
>
> apt-listchanges should have the following additional command-line
> switches:
>
> --which=both --headers
>
> The first is already the default, but it should be specified on the cmd
> line in case it's been changed in the [cmdline] section of
> /etc/apt/listchanges.conf.
>
> The second is useful because it helps to correlate the binary package
> names listed in the first part of the apticron report with the
> listchanges output in the second part of the report.
>
> - Marc
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
> Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
>
> Versions of packages apticron depends on:
> ii apt-listchanges 2.59-0.2 Display change history from .deb
> a
> ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management
> sy
> ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4 A simple mail user agent
>
> -- debconf information:
> * apticron/notification: root
>
>
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