Il 19/08/2022 09:43, julien.puydt@gmail.com ha scritto:
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_?
Thanks for reply, I also think that trimming changelog in binaries is useful to save disk space and a little bit of bandwidth/time (when downloading thanks to smaller packages)
What I mean was only have a fast/easy/know to view the full changelog before make trimming the default.
About "apt-get source" need add of deb-src in source.list, download the full source of the package and some operations so is not optimal, "apt changelog" that download and view the full changelog by default as I saw in previous replies seems a good solution
Cheers, J.Puydt
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