Chris Cheney  wrote on 2010-05-22:
> This appears to be on the CD so it would be very useful to remove the extra 
> overhead. 
> [..] complete removal is probably ok for this case.

Are you talking about removing huge (1.2Mb size) upstream changelog.gz file 
from all openoffice.org-* packages (openoffice.org-common, 
openoffice.org-l10n-common, uno-libs3) or just from ttf-opensymbol package?
Space on Ubuntu/Kubuntu Desktop CDs will be saved only when you remove upstream 
changelog.gz file from all openoffice.org-* packages, which are included in CD, 
because identical files don't take space on compressed squashfs filesystem.

It seems current debhelper can automatically remove upstream changelog
files from binary packages - for example size of libsnmp-base and other
packages from net-snmp source decreased by ~850kb, because of removing
upstream changelog when rebuilding against current debhelper:

net-snmp (5.4.3~dfsg-1ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low
  * No-change rebuild against current debhelper to drop sizable upstream 
changelog.
 -- Martin Pitt <[email protected]>  Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:34:07 +0200
(see 
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/n/net-snmp/net-snmp_5.4.3~dfsg-1ubuntu3/changelog
 )

But latest openoffice.org 3.2.1 packages in Ubuntu Maverick (build at August 24 
with current debhelper) still contains huge (1.2Mb size) upstream changelog.gz 
files :(
Martin Pitt, maybe you know why upstream changelog.gz files are included in 
openoffice.org 3.2.1 packages?

-- 
ttf-opensymbol package grows 6x in size (1.5Mb) in Ubuntu 10.04 because of 
included OOo changelog.gz
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/548692
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