Bug#890533: gtk+3.0: huge upstream changelog in all binary packages

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de> wrote:
> Unlike in previous versions, the 3.22.28 tarball actually contains a
> complete ChangeLog file generated from "git log", and
> dh_installchangelogs duly installs it into every binary package,
> occupying 6 × 3,826,531 bytes on my system.
>
> Personally I think these changelogs are worthless in binary packages and
> it would be better to install the NEWS file as the upstream changelog.
> Alternatively, install this big changelog only in libgtk-3-common and
> provide symlinks in the other binary packages, as it is already done for
> the NEWS and README files.

To some degree, this is a duplicate of bug 459427.
dh_installchangelogs is just following Debian Policy.

Ubuntu has skipped dh_installchangelogs for 7 years so there are
definitely people that agree with you that full upstream changelogs
are a waste of space.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha