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

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

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