Re: Automatic trimming of changelogs in binary packages

[Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>]

On 19/08/22 10:35, Philip Hands wrote:
> How about making the end of the trimmed file be a standard footer
> including a hint about how one can get hold of the rest of the
> changelog, and then have `apt changelog` look out for that footer in the
> local copies in order to know that they've been trimmed, and that it
> should therefore try to download the full version.


This two-line footer is added to the trimmed changelogs:

    # Older entries have been removed from this changelog.
    # To read the complete changelog use `apt changelog foobar`.

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci