Mattia Rizzolo: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:22:37AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> - Would it make sense to split the changelog, leaving older entries >> only in the source package? If so, should this be done manually, or >> would it make sense to have dh_installchangelogs split at some age or >> size limit? > > Yes, this would be very sensible IMHO. > > Having debhelper cut off the changelogs from 4 or 6 years before (and > inserting a pointer to the source package for the rest) sounds like > a good idea to me. >
I think it would be fine to have something like this in dh_installchangelogs enabled by default for Debian changelogs. Merge requests on salsa welcome. Thanks, ~Niels