On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On śro, 2017-05-24 at 13:13 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> Many news items are only relevant when upgrading a package from one >> version to another. For fresh installs, the user does not need to take >> any action. A good example of this is the recent gcc upgrade from 4.9 >> to 5. >> >> In this context, it is often desirable to inform the user of a major >> change in a package before they upgrade it. This would give them time >> to prepare, and allow to skip the upgrade until they are ready. >> >> This is technically possible with the current news item format by >> using a Display-If-Installed header. However, this has a few problems >> depending on how you format the dependency spec. >> >> Display-If-Installed: cat/pkg >> This will be displayed to too many users. >> >> Display-If-Installed: >=cat/pkg-ver >> This will be displayed to users only after they have upgraded. >> >> Display-If-Installed: <cat/pkg-ver >> This targets the right people, but the message will be displayed too >> early for stable users. >> >> I would like to introduce a new header "Display-If-Visible". This >> would restrict display of the news item to users for which the given >> dependency is visible according to their ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and >> package.accept_keywords settings. >> >> Example usage: >> >> Display-If-Installed: <sys-devel/gcc-5 >> Display-If-Visible: >=sys-devel/gcc-5 >> >> Comments? >> > > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/7f5ff2c0a844050f846516a6af39bb06 > > (and the replies to that)
Thanks for the pointer. I suppose I'll just draft something for the GLEP change.
