Package: debhelper Version: 12.9 Severity: wishlist Hi,
some packages have a very detailed debian/changelog which goes back years or even decades. Given that we nowadays have the ability to get changelogs on-demand via "apt changelog", I think it would make sense if the changelog.Debian that is installed on disk can be trimmed down. While I surely can do that via some sed hacks in debian/rules, a nicer option would be, if dh_installchangelogs would provide an option like say --trim=365d / --trim=2y / etc, which would only install changelog entries that are newer then 365 days / 2 years / etc. 2 or 3 years sounds like a good compromise to me, as this would cover changelog entries dating back to the last stable release. For the time being, I would make that opt-in, i.e. packages have to override dh_installchangelogs. Maybe at some point in the future, something like --trim=3y could be made the default behaviour with a new compat bump. I vaguely remember that Ubuntu does something similar in that regard. I've CCed Julian, maybe he can provide some input. Regards, Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev 20180224.1 ii dh-autoreconf 19 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 1.6.3-2 ii dpkg 1.19.7 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7 ii dwz 0.13-5 ii file 1:5.38-4 ii libdebhelper-perl 12.9 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii man-db 2.9.1-1 ii perl 5.30.0-9 ii po-debconf 1.0.21 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 2.202001 -- no debconf information
