Not installing changelogs in 11.04

[Michael Vogt]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:08:20PM +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 15/11/10 15:51, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> However that shakes out, please ensure that the resulting design Just
> Works for PPA's and other non-canonical archives.

Thanks Mark. For third party sites we have a mechanism to publish
changelogs in the pool/ directory just alongside the deb
packages. This is implemented already in update-manager and works with
sites like mediabuntu. Its not yet available for PPAs (yet), but there
is https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/253119 that tracks the
progress of this work. The good thing is that once it lands it will
just work for people on lucid (and onwards) because update-manager has
the support.

I realize that my initial text is a bit misleading "without relying on
launchpad.net" really just means that there is value in having the
changelog file available as a flat http-getable file to ease the load
on LP and because update-manager expects it in raw text format because
it will parse it and only display the relevant bits to the user.

Cheers,
 Michael