Package: krb5
Version: 1.8.3+dfsg-1
Severity: minor

Builds of krb5 recently started picking up the upstream changelog,
which takes up 1.3M even in gzipped form.  That's legitimate, but can
add up when multiple binary packages are installed; AFAICT, a standard
Debian installation will contain eight (or nine with the transitional
libkrb53 package) identical copies, totalling over 10M, and systems
such as mine with further packages installed will of course contain
even more.

As such, I would argue in favor of keeping it only in libkrb5support0
and perhaps krb5-doc; the remaining packages, which all directly or
indirectly depend on libkrb5support0, can all ship symlinks to its
copy.  Could you please have them do so?

Thanks!

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