Comment 3 for bug 13182

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Bypassing apt-listchanges on the apt level is not feasible as it installs itself
> > to "DPkg::Pre-InstallPkgs" and that is run deep inside the dpkgpm.cc code. A
> > enviroment variable "APTLISTCHANGES_NO_ACT" would be a another option (that a
> > changed apt-listchanges honors).
>
> This is already possible today, by setting APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=none. In
> fact, if that meets your needs, I would prefer that you use that approach for
> Hoary, rather than adding a frontend to apt-listchanges, since it is simpler and
> more robust (no need to worry about whether pygtk is installed, for example).

The patch for apt-listchanges detects pygtk and falls back to "pager" if it is
not available.
But I agree with you. I changed update-manager to set the frontend to "none". It
will be
part of the next upload.

Thanks,
 Michael