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

[Hans van Kranenburg]

Hi Ansgar,

On 6/5/20 11:57 AM, Ansgar wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that makes sense.

OTOH, what if there was a really weird problem with libxenmisc4.11 that
we would like to pro-actively inform users about?

I guess there is only one NEWS per source package?

Hans