apt-listchanges (4.0) experimental; urgency=medium apt-listchanges has a new maintainer and has been significantly rewritten to address numerous bug reports and make numerous stability and functionality improvements (see changelog.Debian for details). These improvements are mostly behind the scenes; however, because of the broad scope of the rewritten functionality, users are encouraged to watch for unexpected behavior and report it via `reportbug'. -- Jonathan Kamens Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:49:59 -0400 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 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 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 Sat, 02 Apr 2016 20:24:43 +0200