Package: dpkg Version: 1.21.12 Severity: wishlist Hi Guillem,
dpkg's changelog.gz keeps growing. For the changelog.Debian.gz, debhelper has started pruning old entries. At this time, the changelog contributes one 7th of dpkg's Installed-Size and a third of its .deb size. For development systems, one typicalls has four copies of it. I think it would be worth investigating possible reductions: a) Is it really necessary to keep changelogs until 2009? b) Consider reducing the copies by using symbolic links to the instance in the dpkg binary package. Thanks for considering Helmut
