Le vendredi 19 août 2022 à 09:04 +0200, Fabio Fantoni a écrit : > Il 19/08/2022 03:01, Paul Wise ha scritto: > > 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. > > > Hi, I also used the changelog many times both in the packages I > maintain > and in the one I only use, in some cases a very old changelog entries > was needed.
As long as "apt-get source" gives the whole d/changelog as well as d/rules, d/control and everything, I think this objection is out. Why put rarely-used information in each and every installation of our _users_? Cheers, J.Puydt