> 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.
It would be nice if X number of the oldest entries are kept - particularly the "initial release" one. "X" can be 1 also. It is useful to know when the package entered Debian initially. Between the newer versions and the very old one(s), there can be a comment (with some nice dots and lines) pointing to where to find the missing ones. I remember I have been annoyed on Ubuntu machines when just seeing the "head" of the changelog file.. I also really hope that the full changelog always remains in the source package, and that all cutting is handled automatically by dh_installchangelogs. Regards Ruben
