On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 12:11:38PM +0300, Hakan Bayındır wrote: > While all looks good and feels sound from many aspects, I have some > reservations against treating changelogs as metadata. > > Current changelogs as files have a well known place, can be used by anything > and everything, and they are local. Assuming you are talking about making changelogs available at a dpkg command, as in the RPM world, it's actually making the way to get a package changelog more well-known, not less. > Stuffing them behind a command, possibly making them online only in the > process will arguably make system troubleshooting and administration harder, > esp. if the system has connectivity issues. > > If something critical breaks, I can boot to recovery and look at the logs > and changelogs of recently updated packages. Having recent-ish changelogs on > the disk arguably accelerates the fixing process. I don't think removing recent-ish changelogs from the disk is proposed here. -- WBR, wRAR
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