** Description changed:

  The author of apt-dater decided to switch from plain text configuration
  files to XML [1] in 1.0.2 [2]. However, this package incorporates 1.0.1
  with some commits that inadvertently introduced this backwards
  incompatible change as well to 1.0.1.
  
  After upgrading Ubuntu to 15.04 I have to reconfigure all of my apt-
  dater configuration files without a notice in the changelog, README or
- any warning provided.
+ any warning provided. Also the manpages are not updated accordingly and
+ still describe the 'old' .conf configuration format.
  
  Either provide a configuration converter to upgrade or revert the
  commits introducing this backwards incompatible change. I understand
  some build bug was intended to be fixed by this [3], but I think this is
  much more painful than expected by most users. For Debian sid, this
  situation is fine, but not for Ubuntu stable I guess.
  
  [1] 
https://github.com/DE-IBH/apt-dater/commit/3a84efadc2f969bcc4865d57f0515d86c4d24567
  [2] 
https://github.com/DE-IBH/apt-dater/commit/794a62961674ea3cd17acd2c602060c0b5bd3c25
  [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767594

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  Configuration files are backwards incompatible since
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