Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes: > 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? I was assuming that life's a bit more messy than that, and that one might want apt to use the local copy if it's complete, and download otherwise -- if that's not the case, fine. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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