On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:40:02PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:12:22PM +0200, Julien LEMOINE wrote: > > > I received a bug report on stunnel package from an user [1] that > > complained > > about the fact that I didn't warning about the new /etc/default/stunnel file > > introduced in package (thereis a note in README.Debian and in changelog). > > > Since debconf is not really appreciated for this use, what is the best > > solution ? Inform users with debconf or give them informations only in > > changelog and README.Debian ? > > It does not belong in debconf. Put it in the changelog -- users who > want to know what's changing on their system should be looking there > anyway, and tools such as apt-listchanges make it easier and ever to > access changelog information.
This kind of thing would go in the hypothetical NEWS.Debian, but unfortunately I haven't gotten around to implementing support for it in apt-listchanges yet. -- - mdz