On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
Maybe only I missed it: I just found that all my packages that used to pickup the "ChangeLog" file don't show anything in pacman -Qc!
http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=2cabe336eb33e443819a1d9d...
It seems I missed the note in the NEWS file of pacmans 3.4.0 release. Just a heads up.
Yeah, we didn't do a great job of publishing this behavior change. Sorry about that.
Is it worth the work to update the changelog at all? Any plans on integrating a Changelog to the packages website? Do we need some convention how to order and format the file?
I try to update mine (although they aren't being included, whoops) on big changes- bug fixes and changing configure flags count, but a minor version bump without Arch-specific changes just adds noise. I think most people are using something similar to GNU changelog format. It would unfortunately be a bit more work to add these to the website, as they are not in the db.tar.gz file, and all of the data for the site comes out of those.
[andyrtr@workstation64 tmp]$ find /var/lib/pacman/ | grep changelog | wc -l 48
Not many packages seem to use that feature.
-Andy