On 06/23/2011 04:19 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
I would like to bring up a point which has been annoying me for a while and I would like to get it out there.
I will argue that the changelog feature is unnecessary in pacman/PKGBUILDs.
1.) It's a feature rarely used by anyone, e.g. there are changelogs which exist which haven't been updated in years which I encounter and remove right away.
2.)Svn log usually serves the same purpose, and I can not think of any benefits changelogs provide over svn log.
3.)I can not think of one package I have encountered that included a useful changelog.
Some ways to go about removing it are: declare deprecated -> remove after some time or just remove changelog support right away The last option might be viable given its small audience.
+1 for all the reasons you stated. I favor removing changelog right away.