Not installing changelogs in 11.04

[Gerfried Fuchs]

        Hi!

 I suggest that we drop the others on further responses, not sure
wether this discussion part is really interesting for others. If anyone
is though in fact interested, please raise your voice now, otherwise I
might cut the Cc list on my next response to Michael. :)

* Michael Vogt <mvo at ubuntu.com> [2010-11-15 16:51:58 CET]:
> 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

 Sweet, good to know!

> > >  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.

 If you are using the same tool, do you actually have a patch for the
code? Then I'm all for adding that to packages.debian.org too.

> 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.

 Right, that's my suggestion, to make them more behave the same again
and potential have as sole difference the css and config files, if
possible, to make merges and further development easier.

 Like mentioned, on Debian we are changing the extraction stage from the
packages site itself to the archive tools (dak) and they sync the files
to a specific directory on the site. Is this possible within Ubuntu too?
If so then it would be great to have them in a directory on sulfur
available to synchronize the code, and the output.

 Enjoy!
Rhonda
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