Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.85.13 Severity: wishlist
I always install apt-listchanges, which I find useful at times. However, the vast majority of changes are just noise to me. Sometimes, reading about some small change can be irritating, although someone else may appreciate learning about that same change. Various forms of filtering could be imagined. I'm proposing the most obvious, filtering based on a global importance property given to each NEWS entry. A simple change, but one which needs some work, as - for one thing - a way to set the importance property needs to be defined. The idea of setting the importance property's value to the likelyhood of a system being affected by the change (say 1%) came to mind, but since the change's importance also depends on the impact on affected systems, I don't think a numeric approach is realistic. I'd recommend an arbitrary discrete value, a la debconf. Most PC administrators will likely be satisfied with changes of high importance, so apt-listchanges should filter low- and medium-importance changes for them. If the values are low/medium/high, I believe the default minimal importance should be high. Server administrators may lower this setting. -- Filipus Klutiero http://www.philippecloutier.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
