apt-listchanges (3.14) unstable; urgency=low
When displaying changelogs during upgrades is enabled, but no changelog
file is provided by any of binary packages being processed together, then
apt-listchanges will call `apt-get changelog' command to retrieve changes
over network. (Similar functionality has existed in Ubuntu for ages, and
was incorporated into Debian a few versions ago.)
If for some reason, like limited network connectivity, this behavior
is undesirable, it can be now disabled with the new `--no-network' option
that can be also set using debconf interface:
dpkg-reconfigure apt-listchanges
Additionally the debconf interface was improved to manage a few older
configuration options, for example `--email-format'.
-- Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org> Sun, 09 Jul 2017 09:55:48 +0200
apt-listchanges (3.3) unstable; urgency=medium
Short summary of the most important changes done since version 3.0 up to 3.3:
- apt-listchanges was migrated to python3. The "gtk" frontend now requires
the python3-gi package to work.
- The "browser", "xterm-pager", and "xterm-browser" frontends will now try
to drop root privileges before spawning external commands. This only works
when upgrade was initiated from a regular user account with commands like
sudo|su apt-get|aptitude upgrade|install|etc.
- The way apt-listchanges cooperates with apt was slightly changed; please
make sure to accept the new version of `/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listchanges'
configuration file in case dpkg prompts about the file.
- apt-listchanges no longer supports deprecated frontends (e.g. "w3m")
or ancient (i.e. more than about 15 years old) *.deb packages.
-- Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org> Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:55:31 +0200
apt-listchanges (2.87) unstable; urgency=medium
For better integration with package management system, apt-listchanges
automatically switches to the non-interactive "text" frontend:
- when the `-y'/`--assume-yes' option is passed to apt-get
- or when DEBIAN_FRONTEND environment variable is set to "noninteractive".
The new behavior can be disabled in the configuration file (or via the
command-line parameters), refer to apt-listchanges(1) man page for details.
The "mail" frontend can optionally send e-mails in the HTML format, see the
description of `--email-format' option in the man page for more information.
For the sake of consistency the `--all' and `--show_seen' options were
renamed to `--show-all' and `--show-seen' respectively.
-- Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org> Sat, 02 Apr 2016 20:24:43 +0200
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