Please test apt-listchanges 4.0 in experimental

From	Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel
Subject	Please test apt-listchanges 4.0 in experimental
Date	2023-10-08 17:30 +0200
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Hello friends,

I've adopted apt-listchanges and pushed a new version, 4.0, to 
experimental, with a bunch of fixes in it. Given how extensive the 
changes are, I'd appreciate some testing from folks here before it gets 
promoted to unstable. This package is widely used so it's kind of 
important for us to get this right. ;-)

You can view the changelog.Debian.gz in the deb itself or here 
<https://salsa.debian.org/debian/apt-listchanges/-/blob/4.0/debian/changelog>.

One thing you may notice is that because the method of tracking which 
changelogs the user has already seen (see here 
<https://salsa.debian.org/debian/apt-listchanges/-/blob/4.0/doc/design_notes/what_to_display.md> 
or /usr/share/doc/apt-listchanges/what_to_display.html in the deb for 
details), the database needs to be populated with data for existing 
packages during upgrades, so the first time a package is upgraded after 
the switch to the new method, it will be slightly slower. I have a plan 
for addressing that but it hasn't been implemented yet (and indeed, 
requires advice from folks here for me to get it right, so I'll be 
sending another message after this one to ask for that advice).

Also, I'm still waiting on some translations, so you may notice some 
English strings in foreign locales. There is no need to report this to 
me, I'm aware.

Please file bugs, reply in this thread, or email me privately with any 
feedback as you deem appropriate. If you try it out and everything's 
fine and you can take a moment to email me and let me know that as well, 
I'd appreciate it, since that'll give me confirmation that it's gone 
through some testing by people other than me.

Thank you,

Jonathan Kamens

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Please test apt-listchanges 4.0 in experimental Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> - 2023-10-08 17:30 +0200
  Re: Please test apt-listchanges 4.0 in experimental Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> - 2023-10-10 15:50 +0200
  Re: Please test apt-listchanges 4.0 in experimental Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> - 2023-10-11 09:40 +0200
    Re: Please test apt-listchanges 4.0 in experimental Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> - 2023-10-11 15:00 +0200
      Re: Please test apt-listchanges 4.0 in experimental Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> - 2023-10-11 21:40 +0200

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