Re: CDBS and upstream changelogs

2008-09-03 Thread Pär Andersson
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 15.48.22 Martin Pitt wrote: > We deliberately made this change in order to save several Megabytes on > the CDs, which are better spent for more useful things. You don't have > to download the entire source package, usually the upstream home pages > have an online access

Re: CDBS and upstream changelogs

2008-09-02 Thread Martin Pitt
Pär Andersson [2008-09-02 12:57 +0200]: > I realize that I am probably not the mentioned "ordinary user". However I do > find it very annoying to have to manually download huge source packages just > to read what have changed in a newly installed version of a package. We deliberately made this

CDBS and upstream changelogs

2008-09-02 Thread Pär Andersson
Hi, I recently discovered a missing upstream changelog in a package, and after some confusion I found that it was caused by CDBS. Here is the relevant CDBS changelog: cdbs (0.4.49ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low ... * debhelper.mk.in: Do not install upstream changelogs by default. They are hug