Hi, On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 04:06:56PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:39:43 -0500, "Helmut K. C. Tessarek" > <tessa...@evermeet.cx> wrote: > >Both network "outages" could have been prevented by adding a note at the > >end of the dist-upgrade output. > > > >e.g. something like the following (monospace font required for the > >"Attention" text): > > > > _ _____ _____ _____ _ _ _____ ___ ___ _ _ > > / \|_ _|_ _| ____| \ | |_ _|_ _/ _ \| \ | | > > / _ \ | | | | | _| | \| | | | | | | | | \| | > > / ___ \| | | | | |___| |\ | | | | | |_| | |\ | > >/_/ \_\_| |_| |_____|_| \_| |_| |___\___/|_| \_| > > > >Network interface name changed: please update config files before reboot. > > Why would people who do not read the NEWS.Debian or the Release Notes > read that? And how would you solve the issue of people wanting more > and more of those attention banners?
Presumably because it will be written directly to their terminal. Things in NEWS.Debian or the release notes probably only can caution users to be aware of possible problems; if we are able to detect that there will be a problem and warn the person running the command, that sounds sensible to me, but I have not looked at the details. Michael
