Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

From	Ruben Undheim <lists@beebeetle.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs
Date	2018-09-14 00:40 +0200
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> 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.

It would be nice if X number of the oldest entries are kept - particularly the
"initial release" one. "X" can be 1 also. It is useful to know when the package
entered Debian initially. Between the newer versions and the very old one(s),
there can be a comment (with some nice dots and lines) pointing to where to
find the missing ones. I remember I have been annoyed on Ubuntu machines when
just seeing the "head" of the changelog file..

I also really hope that the full changelog always remains in the source
package, and that all cutting is handled automatically by dh_installchangelogs.


Regards
Ruben

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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 Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2018-09-13 13:10 +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 Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2018-09-13 13:50 +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 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2018-09-13 18:00 +0200
    Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2018-09-13 18:10 +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 Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2018-09-14 13:20 +0200
    Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> - 2018-09-14 14:00 +0200
      Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2018-09-14 15:50 +0200
      Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com> - 2018-09-15 12:40 +0200
        dpkg path-exclude (was: Limiting the size of installed changelogs) Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2018-09-15 15:50 +0200
          Re: dpkg path-exclude (was: Limiting the size of installed changelogs) Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com> - 2018-09-16 05:00 +0200
          Re: dpkg path-exclude Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net> - 2018-09-17 19:40 +0200
            Re: dpkg path-exclude Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> - 2018-09-17 20:10 +0200
  Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-10-13 18:10 +0200

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