Bug#538094: mesa-utils: dominated by redundant changelog.gz

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> 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.
>   

We've discussed this on IRC and it looks like putting the changelog only
in mesa-common-dev could be a good idea.

I wonder if we should also look at removing the changelog from some of
the xorg-server binary packages. It's not 1.6MB there, it's only 700kB,
but still could be nice.

Brice