Re: Putting apt-listchanges and dpkg output in mail sent by unattended-upgrades

From	Ondřej Grover <ondrej.grover@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Putting apt-listchanges and dpkg output in mail sent by unattended-upgrades
Date	2015-10-13 19:30 +0200
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> The most "Debian-proper" way? I'm not really sure- I would edit the script
> myself and just keep that as the local version. The only problem is that
> newer
> versions of the package would probably overwrite it- but they may offer a
> 'local version of config' menu like GRUB and libpolkit do.

That happens for conffiles which are files under /etc or are listed in
debian/conffiles in the deb archive. So that would again mean I'd have to
modify the package

> Rolling your own package seems a bit overkill for what you're trying to do.
>
It wouldn't be an overkill if there was a simple way to manage a local
repository and packages with custom modifications. I have looked around and
it didn't seem that straight-forward. Is there some helper tool perhaps?

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Putting apt-listchanges and dpkg output in mail sent by unattended-upgrades Ondřej Grover <ondrej.grover@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 10:40 +0200
  Re: Putting apt-listchanges and dpkg output in mail sent by  unattended-upgrades moxalt <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2015-10-11 20:00 +0200
    Re: Putting apt-listchanges and dpkg output in mail sent by unattended-upgrades Ondřej Grover <ondrej.grover@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 19:50 +0200
      Re: Putting apt-listchanges and dpkg output in mail sent by  unattended-upgrades moxalt <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2015-10-13 16:10 +0200
        Re: Putting apt-listchanges and dpkg output in mail sent by unattended-upgrades Ondřej Grover <ondrej.grover@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 19:30 +0200
          Re: Putting apt-listchanges and dpkg output in mail sent by  unattended-upgrades moxalt <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2015-10-15 07:50 +0200
            Re: Putting apt-listchanges and dpkg output in mail sent by  unattended-upgrades David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-15 17:10 +0200

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