2008/5/6 Loui :

On Mon, 5 May 2008 18:41:35 -0400 "Dennis Craven" wrote:

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I often find it useful (as do many I'm sure) to keep ChangeLog files up to date when maintaining things like Arch packages etc. Is it bad practice to include this file in the tarball submitted to the AUR?

I think it's fine and dandy.

Me too. Also, you can copy/paste on comments page ( but I think you already do it :P ) Are TUs that don't use often this feature :)

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:11 AM, DaNiMoTh wrote:

Are TUs that don't use often this feature :)

I have detailed changelogs in almost all of my community packages. I don't use them in unsupported, however :-D Corrado

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Dennis Craven wrote:

Okay, it seems nobody is dead against them. I just didn't want to break some policy that I wasn't aware of. I've uploaded my latest package including the ChangeLog. We'll see if anyone objects :).

I don't see any reasons to object. Actually, several users would like to see more changelogs. But then some packagers feel like it's a bit a waste of time, that the info is already available (cvs/svn logs for packages in repos, AUR comments for unsupported). But any packagers who find them useful should definitely include them in their packages. Have a look at /usr/share/pacman/ChangeLog.proto (from pacman package) But just for clarification, you want to log the changes in your package, right, not upstream changes. Because arch packages changelogs are for arch package changes.

On Wed 2008-05-07 02:50 , Geoffroy Carrier wrote:

On 5/6/08, Dennis Craven wrote:

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Okay, it seems nobody is dead against them. I just didn't want to break some policy that I wasn't aware of. I've uploaded my latest package including the ChangeLog. We'll see if anyone objects :). Typically not exactly related, but I always use mercurial and vim. Is there some way with any of these apps, or an external tool, to easily add an entry in a Changelog? Google may be my friend...

In Vim (if you set ft=changelog) you can add an entry with <Leader>o Usually <Leader> is "\". As you can see in /usr/share/vim/ftplugin/changelog.vim , it reads the EMAIL environment variable, so you should set it to something like EMAIL="Your Name " (e.g. in ~/.bashrc). HTH, -- Alessio (molok) Bolognino Please send personal email to themolok@gmail.com Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Geoffroy Carrier wrote:

Is there some way with any of these apps, or an external tool, to easily add an entry in a Changelog?

I use this script[1]. It works very well. [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1631 Cheers, ~djc