Guillem Jover wrote: > Descriptions are only downloaded once nowadays. Not actually true; apt-get update downloads all package descriptions without even pdiffs nowadays, every time there's a change to any single description. Get:22 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main Translation-en [3,882 kB] > /usr/share/doc/pkgname/ > /usr/share/bug/pkgname > /usr/share/lintian/overrides/pkgname > /usr/share/mime-info/pkgname.* > /usr/share/menu/pkgname > ... > > (Joey, I'm guessing you might consider it too late to do some of these in > debhelper for compat level 9, right?) I wouldn't worry about this, there's still time to make whatever changes might be needed in v10. It's not actually clear this would be a change that needs a compat level at all. More worrying is how to make apt-listchanges and everything else use these locations in time. -- see shy jo
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