Comment 5 for bug 194574

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Walter (wdoekes) wrote :

Right now I have the former installed, also boom.

```
$ dpkg -L chromium-browser | grep changelog.Debian
/usr/share/doc/chromium-browser/changelog.Debian.gz

$ dpkg -l | grep chromium-
ii chromium-browser 72.0.3626.119-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome
ii chromium-codecs-ffmpeg 72.0.3626.119-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 Free ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser

$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/chromium-browser/changelog.Debian.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 feb 25 15:56 /usr/share/doc/chromium-browser/changelog.Debian.gz -> ../chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/changelog.Debian.gz

$ ls -l ../chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/changelog.Debian.gz
ls: cannot access '../chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/changelog.Debian.gz': No such file or directory
```

I don't think saving 2k warrants breaking sane access to the changelog:
```
$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/chromium-browser/
total 1108
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 feb 25 15:56 changelog.Debian.gz -> ../chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1126239 okt 25 2017 copyright
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2512 okt 25 2017 copyright.problems.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2975 okt 25 2017 README.source

$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg/
total 1104
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2263 feb 25 15:56 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1126239 okt 25 2017 copyright
```

That copyright file takes up actual space but is not symlinked, :thinking_face:
```
$ md5sum /usr/share/doc/chromium-{browser,codecs-ffmpeg}/copyright
983091d3a4c4e207f2146a911a7f7387 /usr/share/doc/chromium-browser/copyright
983091d3a4c4e207f2146a911a7f7387 /usr/share/doc/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg/copyright
```