Re: Automatic trimming of changelogs in binary packages
Le vendredi 19 août 2022 à 09:04 +0200, Fabio Fantoni a écrit :
> Il 19/08/2022 03:01, Paul Wise ha scritto:
> > On Thu, 2022-08-18 at 21:18 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> >
> > > Does anybody have objective objections against activating
> > > automatic
> > > changelog trimming in binary packages?
> > Before we consider enabling this by default, first we need a way
> > for
> > `apt changelog` to download the full changelog rather than loading
> > the
> > changelog from /usr/share/doc in the currently installed package.
> >
> > Otherwise people who want to look at the full changelog for the
> > currently installed version of the package will have no easy way to
> > do
> > so. They will have to manually find it instead, which isn't exactly
> > an
> > easy process if you do not know where the changelogs are stored
> > online.
> >
> Hi, I also used the changelog many times both in the packages I
> maintain
> and in the one I only use, in some cases a very old changelog entries
> was needed.
As long as "apt-get source" gives the whole d/changelog as well as
d/rules, d/control and everything, I think this objection is out.
Why put rarely-used information in each and every installation of our
_users_?
Cheers,
J.Puydt
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