Hi! On Mon, 2023-01-02 at 09:56:56 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.21.12 > Severity: wishlist
> dpkg's changelog.gz keeps growing. For the changelog.Debian.gz, > debhelper has started pruning old entries. At this time, the changelog > contributes one 7th of dpkg's Installed-Size and a third of its .deb > size. For development systems, one typicalls has four copies of it. I > think it would be worth investigating possible reductions: > > a) Is it really necessary to keep changelogs until 2009? So, I'm not very happy with the change in debhelper trimming changelogs, even more so, given that apt still uses the on-disk changelog, so there's currently no easy way to get at those. I think, though that not shipping the «git log» at all would be a fine compromise. So I guess I'll add --no-trim, and stop shipping the ChangeLog. Because in any case people can always exclude these paths. > b) Consider reducing the copies by using symbolic links to the instance > in the dpkg binary package. I've considered this option in the past, but it would require a strict dependency on dpkg which did not seem ideal. Thanks, Guillem
