On Sun, 06 May 2007 17:49:24 +0200
Hans de Graaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Nope. Display-If-Upgrading-From-To: wouldn't trigger until the
> > upgrade actually happened. 
> 
> Since this header is not documented anywhere yet let me ask the
> following questions about it:
> 
> Will the news item be shown before or after the package gets merged?

After. For before, use Display-If-Installed: on a lower version.

> > You want Display-If-Installed:, because users that
> > have earlier versions will be affected at some point in the future.
> 
> I'm afraid that this is not correct, because the semantics of
> Display-If-Installed don't match the use case I described.
> Specifically, it will cause the news item to be shown way to early
> for users on a stable profile.

Thus giving them lots of notice, which is one of the things the GLEP
was designed to do.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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