Hi, I've had a consistent problem over the years with the announcements that are sent out for updates to the stable distribution, one that should be easily correctable.
The messages are written as if it is assumed that people don't apply security updates. It is typical that an update to stable changes 30 packages, but 27 of those changes do nothing to a system that has security.debian.org in the apt sources.list. What this means is that the vast majority of readers have to carefully scan and parse the messages to extract the small number of changes that will actually do something to their system, as opposed to security updates that have already been applied, or else completely ignore the message and just see what apt-get dist-upgrade wants to do. The solution is obvious: please include a list (ideally at the beginning) of changed packages in the release that were not previously available from security.debian.org. In most cases this will be a very small list. Thanks.
