[arch-dev-public] ChangeLogs
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. 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? [andyrtr@workstation64 tmp]$ find /var/lib/pacman/ | grep changelog | wc -l 48 Not many packages seem to use that feature. -Andy
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
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:55 PM, 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.
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?
[andyrtr@workstation64 tmp]$ find /var/lib/pacman/ | grep changelog | wc -l 48
Not many packages seem to use that feature.
-Andy
I don't think it's worthwhile to add ChangeLog support to the website. Personnally, I've started to remove ChangeLog from my packages. Usually it's just upstream update plus when another dev rebuild/fix your package they forget or don't bother to update the ChangeLog. I'm not the only one doing that. I update the abs tree daily and there is a definite trend going on about removing ChangeLog from the repos. The pacman package doesn't even have a ChangeLog. ;)
On 19 November 2010 07:26, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:55 PM, 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.
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?
[andyrtr@workstation64 tmp]$ find /var/lib/pacman/ | grep changelog | wc -l 48
Not many packages seem to use that feature.
-Andy
I don't think it's worthwhile to add ChangeLog support to the website. Personnally, I've started to remove ChangeLog from my packages. Usually it's just upstream update plus when another dev rebuild/fix your package they forget or don't bother to update the ChangeLog. I'm not the only one doing that. I update the abs tree daily and there is a definite trend going on about removing ChangeLog from the repos.
The pacman package doesn't even have a ChangeLog. ;)
Ditto. I've tried to get into the habit a few times, but seeing changelogs with the last entry being made over a year ago does not help.
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Andreas Radke
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Dan McGee
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Eric Bélanger
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Ray Rashif