[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#962267: xen: please consider to not install NEWS into runtime library packages

[Ansgar]

Source: xen
Version: 4.11.4-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/doc/libxenmisc4.11/NEWS.Debian.gz

Please consider to not install debian/NEWS into runtime library
packages.  They get pulled into systems that do not run Xen at all in
which case the NEWS aren't very helpful (just noise that
apt-listchanges shows).  For my system for example:

+---
| % aptitude why libxenmisc4.11
| i   qemu-kvm        Depends qemu-system-x86
| i A qemu-system-x86 Depends libxenmisc4.11
+---

Installing NEWS into xen*, but not libxen* probably still reaches all
relevant users.

Ansgar

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'buildd-unstable'), (300, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libxenmisc4.11:amd64 depends on:
ii  libc6                 2.30-8
ii  libext2fs2            1.45.6-1
ii  liblzma5              5.2.4-1+b1
ii  libuuid1              2.35.2-2
ii  libxencall1           4.11.4-1
ii  libxendevicemodel1    4.11.4-1
ii  libxenevtchn1         4.11.4-1
ii  libxenforeignmemory1  4.11.4-1
ii  libxengnttab1         4.11.4-1
ii  libxenstore3.0        4.11.4-1
ii  libxentoollog1        4.11.4-1
ii  libyajl2              2.1.0-3
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

libxenmisc4.11:amd64 recommends no packages.

libxenmisc4.11:amd64 suggests no packages.

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