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Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

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On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:22:37AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> - Would it make sense to split the changelog, leaving older entries
> only in the source package?  If so, should this be done manually, or
> would it make sense to have dh_installchangelogs split at some age or
> size limit?

Yes, this would be very sensible IMHO.

Having debhelper cut off the changelogs from 4 or 6 years before (and
inserting a pointer to the source package for the rest) sounds like
a good idea to me.

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Limiting the size of installed changelogs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-09-13 12:30 +0200
  Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> - 2018-09-13 12:50 +0200
    Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-09-13 14:50 +0200
      Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2018-09-13 18:10 +0200
  Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2018-09-13 14:00 +0200
  Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2018-09-13 14:30 +0200
  Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org> - 2018-09-13 15:00 +0200
    Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org> - 2018-09-13 15:10 +0200
      Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-10-13 17:40 +0200
  Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2018-09-13 18:20 +0200
    Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Ruben Undheim <lists@beebeetle.com> - 2018-09-14 00:40 +0200
  Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-10-13 18:10 +0200

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