Not installing changelogs in 11.04

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Colin,

Colin Watson [2010-11-09  9:52 +0000]:
> This option has its benefits.  The reason I think this is better than
> the status quo in natty is that there's going to be a sizeable
> population of knowledgeable users who reach for
> /usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.<tab><tab> "what the heck?", and I'd
> like to eliminate the "what the heck?" factor.  A simple option would be
> to cap the size of the changelog we distribute in binary packages to
> min(a release cycle, some size limit), and at the end of the changelog,
> write:
> 
>   For older changelog entries, run 'apt-changelog <package>'.

This seems like a good compromise to me. We could start with just
keeping all changelog entries of the current release, and then
perhaps drop them altogether in a later release, when the world knows
about apt-changelog.

It's a bit tricky to determine which of the Debian changelog parts
would belong into our "current" release. Does it sound okay to you to
just include the topmost 10, or everything from <= 6 months (relative
to the topmost changelog date)?

> general I don't like anything that makes installations from the desktop
> CD inconsistent with other methods

Me too.

> Could somebody do the arithmetic on option A to find out how much space
> it would save in comparison to (1) maverick and (2) the natty status
> quo?  I realise that the answers may be approximate.

I did some samples on a maverick live system, and we can eliminate a
magnitude of 90%. From my POV this should be "good enough" at least
until the next LTS; by then, everyone who looks into changelogs at all
should have seen the apt-changelog pointer.

Didier, Stefano, what do you think about this?

Thanks,

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
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