On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 3:36 PM Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > The release notes for Bookworm should and will certainly mention that. > I think this is where this bug is actually actionable, so I am > reassigning it there. > > > Yes, he should be regularly subscribed to debian-user, but that's too > > much. > > I have sent a heads-up message[1] there a few days ago, but as you said it > got lost in all the other topics discussed there. > > > Or https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/, but that's too many boring > > messages too. > > There was not even a prominent notice there, at least not in the past > few weeks. > > > Yes, he uses apt-listchanges, but that won't tell him this. > > > > So I'm saying that Debian needs a mechanism to have his computer tell > > him to do this. > > > > Maybe the next time he uses apt*, somehow the system should tell him... > > Somehow, but how exactly? Good question that was brought up on > debian-devel[2], alas without replies yet.
I got bitten by this, and only noticed it when my system's firmware packages showed up in the output of "apt list ~g". I'm sure I'm missing something, but why weren't transitional packages left in non-free that depend on the new versions in non-free-firmware? Perhaps they could also depend on a source-list-modifying package so the next upgrade doesn't break.
