Pär Andersson [2008-09-02 12:57 +0200]: > I realize that I am probably not the mentioned "ordinary user". However I do > find it very annoying to have to manually download huge source packages just > to read what have changed in a newly installed version of a package.
We deliberately made this change in order to save several Megabytes on the CDs, which are better spent for more useful things. You don't have to download the entire source package, usually the upstream home pages have an online accessible changelog. Also, in many cases a summary of the interesting upstream changes are echoed in the package changelog (debian/changelog). > So disabling CDBS automatic handling of this looks like an obvious policy > violation to me. I don't agree. Normal debhelper doesn't install upstream changelogs by default either, and cdbs doesn't stop you from doing it, it just doesn't do it by default (as in Debian). > It also introduces hidden changes in Ubuntu compared to > Debian, as CDBS built packages synced from Debian to Ubuntu will miss > documentation files compared to the package in Debian. Right, that was the intention. Syncing a source package from Debian to Ubuntu will cause a lot of other "hidden" changes, such as toolchain hardening, translation stripping, gettext support for .desktop files, and all that. The great thing about cdbs is that we can make those changes centrally and document them there, instead of spreading them over hundreds of source packages and constantly being inconsistent (of course that doesn't apply to all packages which don't use cdbs). > How much space does this really save on the CDs? Back then, when we made the change, we rebuilt some 10 packages too free several MB. It's difficult to measure the savings for all packages using cdbs, but I guesstimate an magnitude of 10 MB. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
