On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 12:09:28PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Right, the question is wether it would make sense to remove them from > the CD only. On the other hand, that would create different packages > from different installation areas, thus resulting in quite some > confusion. From what I calculated, 25 mb were thrown around, which would > be a bit more than 3% of a regular CD size - are these numbers correct? > Is this difference worth the confusion?
The short answer is: yes. Space on the Ubuntu Desktop Edition CD is very tight. > > Changelogs are of course a valuable developer tool, but do we really > > care that much about having them available locally? Personally I think > > that an > > apt-changelog gnome-panel > > is not much harder than > > zless /usr/share/doc/gnome-panel/changelog.Debian.gz > > This apt-changelog utility sounds quite helfpul. Is this going to get > into the regular apt-utils package (within Debian) too? http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/ and http://changelogs.debian.net are currently not compatible with one another, so apt-changelog might require a bit of porting for Debian. > See above, network access is not always available. And would > apt-changelog offer a possibility to call it on a networked computer to > download them all and transfer them through usb stick to a system to > store them in their expected place? Would apt-changelog actually store > the changelog in the expected place? It doesn't sound appropriate for a tool which displays the changelog to then stuff it into /usr/share/doc (which requires root, read/write fs, etc.). I'm sure there are many ways in which apt-changelog could be improved and extended, but that we only need minimal functionality in order to meet our objectives in Ubuntu. -- - mdz -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
