Not installing changelogs in 11.04

[Michael Vogt]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:33:51AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
[..]
> > > >  This apt-changelog utility sounds quite helfpul. Is this going to get
> > > > into the regular apt-utils package (within Debian) too?
> > > 
> > > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/ and http://changelogs.debian.net are currently
> > > not compatible with one another, so apt-changelog might require a bit of
> > > porting for Debian.

There is a native c++ implementation for apt-changelogs now in
lp:~mvo/apt/apt-get-changelogs that follows the directory layout that
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/ is using. We use the same
layout (in fact mostly the same tool :) in changelogs.ubuntu.com

> >  Actually, changelogs.debian.net isn't the proper place,
> > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/ is the correct one - and they
> > don't look that incompatible with each other. ;)

They should be compatible. The only addition we do in
changelogs.ubuntu.com is that there are additional symlinks if
source_ver!=binary_ver (like for gcc-defaults). This fixes changelog
fetching on installs with deb-src disabled for tools like gcc. It
would be nice to include something like this to debian as well, this
way the code in apt could also be simplified.

> >  Anyways, we are even currently about to refactor the changelogs/ part
> > of the packages site because the archive tools are extracing these
> > information for us and we'll incorporate information from packages in
> > backports and make it possible to later incorporate extractions from
> > security too once they are available. In the light of that there might
> > be an additional directory in there, saying debian, debian-backports and
> > debian-security, but appart from that it will stay the same.
> > 
> >  Please notice that we have a changelog.html and changelog.txt in there
> > (and our changelog sends the proper encoding back - a thing you might
> > want to fix on changelogs.ubuntu ;))
> > 
> >  It might be interesting to work with the person that is responsible for
> > changelogs.ubuntu.com - because I'm not too sure if this should really
> > be kept seperate, or what the background for that was actually.
> That's Michael Vogt.  I've added him to the CC list.

I would love to serve the changelogs via packages.ubuntu.com (that is
what you propose, right?) and stop maintaining
changelogs.ubuntu.com. We have it since a long time because we need a
place to store our changelogs without relying on launchpad.net. I'm
not attached to it, I just want a place that gives me raw changelogs
files.

Thanks,
 Michael