Control: reassign -1 apt-listchanges On 9 October 2025 19:57:35 CEST, Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> wrote: >Package: apt >Version: 3.0.3 >Severity: wishlist > >Dear Maintainer, > >When running `apt upgrade', `apt-listchanges' is run after packages are >downloaded and before they are actually upgraded. The downloading phase >can be quite long, especially when upgrading from one major Debian >version to the next and I may attend to other things during that time, >and when I come back, I found the upgrade was stuck in displaying the >news from packages by `apt-listchanges', and after quitting, I'll have >to wait another long time until the upgrades finish. > >As `apt-listchanges' just displays the news from packages, and does not >offer a way to stop or postpone package upgrades, I wonder whether it >would be possible to run it after packages are upgraded, so that people >like me won't be surprised that we'll have to wait for another long >time. I know there are unattended upgrade options, but for upgrading >from one major version to the next, it would be better to monitor the >process somehow which would benefit more from this since the process can >be quite long. > >-- System Information: >Debian Release: 13.1 > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, > 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable') >Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > >Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) >Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not >set >Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash >Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) >LSM: AppArmor: enabled > >Versions of packages apt depends on: >ii adduser 3.152 >ii base-passwd 3.6.7 >ii debian-archive-keyring 2025.1 >ii libapt-pkg7.0 3.0.3 >ii libc6 2.41-12 >ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19 >ii libseccomp2 2.6.0-2 >ii libssl3t64 3.5.1-1+deb13u1 >ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19 >ii libsystemd0 257.8-1~deb13u2 >ii sqv 1.3.0-3 > >Versions of packages apt recommends: >ii ca-certificates 20250419 > >Versions of packages apt suggests: >pn apt-doc <none> >ii aptitude 0.8.13-7 >ii dpkg-dev 1.22.21 >ii gnupg 2.4.7-21 >pn powermgmt-base <none> >ii synaptic 0.91.7 > >-- no debconf information >
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