Not installing changelogs in 11.04

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:51:31AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> 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)?

Works for me.

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 - mdz