Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > It's become clear that we do not have consensus on recommending that > only the release notes be installed, and not also the changelog.
I'm happy to see this go into Policy, but I find it unfortunate that we're unwilling to take a stance against this. The source-level ChangeLog is essentially useless in Debian binary packages, and I've seen packages waste megabytes (compressed!) of space on it. I'm installing it in one of my own packages because I felt an obligation to do so because Policy said I should, and I'm very happy to remove it. I second this patch, though, as a step forward and a way to resolve this long-standing bug, so at least we can start standardizing on NEWS.gz as the actually useful file and let people start retraining their finger memory. And this new text makes it clear that it's optional to install the ChangeLog file, which is the other outcome that I wanted. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
