[ 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, [email protected] 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

