Missing upstream changelogs due to Ubuntu change in dh_installchangelogs
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
debhelper (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: debhelper
dh_installchang
This causes the ChangeLog file in libtorrent-
I think this Ubuntu delta needs a review:
1. how much space does it save after all?
2. Are packages like libtorrent-
Patch/Diff is at http://
debhelper (7.4.20ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low
* dh_installchang
This floods packages with huge upstream changelogs which take precious CD
space.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:07:12 +0200
Changed in debhelper (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
summary: |
- Missing upstream changelogs due to Ubuntu changes in - dh_installchangelogs + Missing upstream changelogs due to Ubuntu change in dh_installchangelogs |
Changed in debhelper (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-10.10 |
This is not a bug, it's a deliberate change. Since this change was introduced, CDs kept overflowing and growing every day, and removing them again (and doing a couple of rebuild) has already saved us an order of 15 MB on the CDs (for question 1). As for (2), the intention is to not carry Ubuntu deltas, of course; it's not really that useful to ship upstream changelogs in the first place. If you want to make them easily accessible, you could put an URL to the upstream git etc. to the README.
This basically reflects the cdbs change from ages ago:
- 1/rules/ debhelper. mk.in:
+ Do not install upstream changelogs by default. They are huge and thus
waste a lot of archive and CD space, quite uninteresting for ordinary
users, and easy to get by downloading the source package or visiting the
upstream page pointed out in copyright.