The author of apt-dater decided to switch from plain text configuration files to XML [1] in 1.0.2 [2]. However, this package incorporates 1.0.1 with some commits that inadvertently introduced this backwards incompatible change as well to 1.0.1.
After upgrading Ubuntu to 15.04 I have to reconfigure all of my apt-dater configuration files without a notice in the changelog, README or any warning provided.
Either provide a configuration converter to upgrade or revert the commits introducing this backwards incompatible change. I understand some build bug was intended to be fixed by this [3], but I think this is much more painful than expected by most users. For Debian sid, this situation is fine, but not for Ubuntu stable I guess.
The author of apt-dater decided to switch from plain text configuration files to XML [1] in 1.0.2 [2]. However, this package incorporates 1.0.1 with some commits that inadvertently introduced this backwards incompatible change as well to 1.0.1.
After upgrading Ubuntu to 15.04 I have to reconfigure all of my apt-dater configuration files without a notice in the changelog, README or any warning provided.
Either provide a configuration converter to upgrade or revert the commits introducing this backwards incompatible change. I understand some build bug was intended to be fixed by this [3], but I think this is much more painful than expected by most users. For Debian sid, this situation is fine, but not for Ubuntu stable I guess.
[1] https:/ /github. com/DE- IBH/apt- dater/commit/ 3a84efadc2f969b cc4865d57f0515d 86c4d24567 /github. com/DE- IBH/apt- dater/commit/ 794a62961674ea3 cd17acd2c602060 c0b5bd3c25 /bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 767594
[2] https:/
[3] https:/