I like to view the changelogs and news of packages before I install their updated versions. I also like to install documentation packages (typically '^.*-doc$') related to software that I don't use (or have installed), but this problem has shown up more generally, too.
Unfortunately the changelogs for these documentation packages often include changes to the main package (changelogs/news of "somepackage-doc" include changes to "somepackage" as well). This is especially frustrating for "security" upgrades that warn about security vulnerabilities and exploits that don't actually affect any of my installed packages (or the updated package(s)).
I'd like to know if there's a way to disable this behaviour (even if that means such packages don't have any listed changes) while still seeing the "real" changes. I've looked through all of the options for the apt-listchanges utility and config file and can't seem to find anything related to this.
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