Bug#538094: mesa-utils: dominated by redundant changelog.gz
Package: mesa-utils
Version: 7.5-2
Severity: minor
In general, I'm all for shipping upstream changelogs, as their
contents are often of interest. However, in the case of mesa-utils,
doing so increased the package's installed footprint by approximately
a factor of 15(!). Moreover, it already depends on libgl1-mesa-glx |
libgl1, where the only alternative is libgl1-mesa-swx11; either option
already contains an identical changelog.gz. (AFAICT, the non-free
fglrx-glx and nvidia-glx drivers don't themselves provide libgl1, so
they're not a consideration here.)
In fact, most of the sixteen binary packages mesa builds depend on
other mesa packages; the only exceptions appear to be libgl1-mesa-dri,
libgl1-mesa-glx, libosmesa6, and mesa-common-dev, so I'd generally
suggest leaving extra copies of changelog.gz out of the remainder.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages mesa-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.5-2 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library
mesa-utils recommends no packages.
mesa-utils suggests no packages.
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