On Thu, 2018-09-13 at 13:46 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:22:37AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > The src:linux package has a very big changelog (about 1700 kiB > > uncompressed, 600 kiB gzipped). On my system the largest installed > > changelogs, by some way, are all versions of this. (The next largest > > changelogs come from src:glibc, at about 200 kiB gzipped.) > > I was curious, so I ran the following on my laptop: > > $ find /usr/share/doc -name '*changelog*' -printf '%s %p\n' | sort -n | tail > -n10 | while read size path; do echo $(humanify "$size") "$path"; done > 2 MB /usr/share/doc/libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0/changelog.gz > 2 MB /usr/share/doc/xserver-common/changelog.gz > 2 MB /usr/share/doc/xserver-xephyr/changelog.gz [...]
I should have said I was only considering Debian changelogs here. It's not too surprising that upstream changelogs can be even larger. The inclusion of upstream changelogs (vs release notes) was discussed in # 459427. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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