On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:46:00PM -0500, Ari Pollak wrote:
> NEWS.Debian has been around for a while (thought not officially
> documented in policy) as a way to inform users of major changes to the
> package. The apt-listchanges package is a fairly unintrusive package
> that intelligently informs people of new NEWS.Debian entries, which may
> not have been included in release notes or when tracking
> testing/unstable. Therefore, I recommend adding apt-listchanges to the
> standard task, so new users will get the appropriate change updates.
> Experienced users or those who are managing multiple machines can easily
> uninstall the package or disable it.

It would be nice to know whether that would require elevating some of
its dependencies to standard as well.

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <dj...@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/



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