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I also did a review on the new package motd-news-config. A few notes:
* debian/copyright
This appears to still have template content needing filled out. I don't think the copyright file needs much detail; this is a pretty minimal package.
* debian/
The grammar of the comments in this file is rather poor. Given that we're making a new package, this seems like a good opportunity to improve the user documentation text. Here's my attempt:
# Enable/disable the dynamic MOTD news service.
#
# This service provides information relevant to the local
# system administrator such as availability of upgrades,
# system status data, and similar.
#
ENABLED=1
# Source service for dynamic MOTD news.
#
# MOTD news is provided by Canonical via motd.ubuntu.com. This
# configuration parameter allows pulling it from one or more
# alternative locations (whitespace-
# reasons, these must use the https protocol and have a valid
# certificate.
#
URLS="https:/
# Delay (in seconds) between MOTD fetch attempts.
#
# Note that news messages are fetched in the background by
# a systemd timer and will not block boot or login.
#
WAIT=5
I'm kind of curious about the WAIT parameter, am I interpreting this correctly that it polls every 5 seconds? That seems far too frequently so I think I'm missing something here.
I also installed base-files from the PPA, and it correctly pulled in the new package and newer ubuntu-server. It appears if you delete (or don't have) 50-motd-news, it'll prompt you to create it but default to omitting it, which seems to be appropriate behavior:
Preparing to unpack .../base-
Warning: Stopping motd-news.service, but it can still be activated by:
motd-news.timer
Unpacking base-files (11ubuntu11) over (11ubuntu7) ...
Setting up base-files (11ubuntu11) ...
Configuration file '/etc/update-
==> Deleted (by you or by a script) since installation.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : start a shell to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** 50-motd-news (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?