Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Package: mesa-utils > Version: 7.5-2 > Severity: minor > > In general, I'm all for shipping upstream changelogs, as their > contents are often of interest. However, in the case of mesa-utils, > doing so increased the package's installed footprint by approximately > a factor of 15(!). Moreover, it already depends on libgl1-mesa-glx | > libgl1, where the only alternative is libgl1-mesa-swx11; either option > already contains an identical changelog.gz. (AFAICT, the non-free > fglrx-glx and nvidia-glx drivers don't themselves provide libgl1, so > they're not a consideration here.) > > In fact, most of the sixteen binary packages mesa builds depend on > other mesa packages; the only exceptions appear to be libgl1-mesa-dri, > libgl1-mesa-glx, libosmesa6, and mesa-common-dev, so I'd generally > suggest leaving extra copies of changelog.gz out of the remainder. >
We've discussed this on IRC and it looks like putting the changelog only in mesa-common-dev could be a good idea. I wonder if we should also look at removing the changelog from some of the xorg-server binary packages. It's not 1.6MB there, it's only 700kB, but still could be nice. Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
