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Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs



On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:22:37AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> - Would it make sense to split the changelog, leaving older entries
> only in the source package?  If so, should this be done manually, or
> would it make sense to have dh_installchangelogs split at some age or
> size limit?

Yes, this would be very sensible IMHO.

Having debhelper cut off the changelogs from 4 or 6 years before (and
inserting a pointer to the source package for the rest) sounds like
a good idea to me.

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