On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 02:04:24PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > I'd like to add support to this proposal. > > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It's convention that README.Debian is the place that the user should > >have > >looked first (even if they don't have problems), and it might be good > >for it > >to be more visible. > > Absolutely. > > In my experience README.Debian needs greater visibility. Often there is > critical information documented in README.Debian that isn't covered in > the man page, and only rarely does the man page reference README.Debian. > It is assumed that all users habitually check README.Debian just as they > would man pages, but I don't think this is the case. It was a while after > I started using Debian before I became aware of the value of the > supplemental documentation in /usr/share/doc/<package>.
README.Debian format is unspecified, and it's IMHO not apt-listchanges primary goal. apt-listchanges helps you to see changes since the last update, because it's *hard* for the user to remember the last installed version. README.Debian is tricker: there could be many different ones for the same source packages (not for changelogs) and it also evolves, and is not attached to a package version, nor parseable. So it's not doable in apt-listchanges way. I don't plan to work on this issue for those reasons. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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