On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:04:59AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Matt Zimmerman <[email protected]> [2010-11-10 12:15:11 CET]: > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 12:09:28PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > > 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. > > Alright, for CDs I can understand, but I am not too sure wether the > difference is really that much with respect to installation size.
Not hugely. That isn't a particular priority for us (as in, it's generally always less constrained than CD size, except on ARM systems and the like). > > > 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. > > Actually, changelogs.debian.net isn't the proper place, > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/ is the correct one - and they > don't look that incompatible with each other. ;) > > Anyways, we are even currently about to refactor the changelogs/ part > of the packages site because the archive tools are extracing these > information for us and we'll incorporate information from packages in > backports and make it possible to later incorporate extractions from > security too once they are available. In the light of that there might > be an additional directory in there, saying debian, debian-backports and > debian-security, but appart from that it will stay the same. > > Please notice that we have a changelog.html and changelog.txt in there > (and our changelog sends the proper encoding back - a thing you might > want to fix on changelogs.ubuntu ;)) > > It might be interesting to work with the person that is responsible for > changelogs.ubuntu.com - because I'm not too sure if this should really > be kept seperate, or what the background for that was actually. That's Michael Vogt. I've added him to the CC list. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
