Comment 0 for bug 1888575

The motd-news script is largely useless for desktop users, as they rarely login via a text console. It makes more sense for server users.

We can use package dependencies to have the motd-news script enabled on servers, but disabled on desktops, and still handle upgrades. This is the plan:
- move /etc/default/motd-news from base-files into a NEW package (motd-news-config)
- have ubuntu-server depend on motd-news-config (or recommends)
- have base-files break current ubuntu-server, so that if base-files if upgraded and ubuntu-server is installed, ubuntu-server will also be upgraded to the new version which has the depends (or recommends) on motd-news-config

Care must be taken to preserve a changed /etc/default/motd-news when the upgrade installs the new motd-news-config package. For example, on a server that has set ENABLED=0 in /etc/default/motd-news and upgrades to the new base-files and ubuntu-server, and gets the new motd-config-news package, ENABLED=0 must remain set.