Am 19.08.22 um 10:35 schrieb Philip Hands:
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes: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.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.
If we enable trimming by default (for all packages), then apt can just go directly to query the changelog online.
What would be the benefit for "apt changelog" to look for such a footer?
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