Bug#632193: Changelogs unrelated
[ I fixed the title of this bug, as there is no "unrelated" changelogs anywhere
here ]
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:24:27PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 05:17:58PM +0400, jaakov@ro.ru wrote:
> > Package: openoffice.org
> > Version: 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
> > Priority: whishlist
> >
> > The changelog.gz and changelog.Debian.gz files are the same for all
> > the (>=33) openoffice.org... packages, resulting in >= 44612568
> > bytes of disk consumption. The space is uselessly wasted. Moreover,
>
> Wow. 42M. How much... Given broadband these days this is not an issue...
And given that 42M compressed is quite small. And harddisks are big enough
too...
And see http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-changelogs
> > information in changelogs should really accurately apply to the
> > affected package.
Correct. the *source* package. "openoffice.org"
> No, openoffice.org is the source package. There's no Debian changelog
> for a specific binary package; that's always the source package. That's
> what policy says, too.
See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-dpkgchangelog
Grüße/Regards,
René
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