On 24/06/11 01:04, Dan McGee wrote:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase<sh@lutzhaase.com> wrote:
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.
So confused. Should we remove deltas too? And support for bz2/xz packages and databases?
Why on earth would we remove a feature that someone might use, even if Arch is not making extensive use of it? This is incredibly shortsighted.
Agreed. It is not being removed. As an Arch packager, I have to admit I find changlogs to be a pain to maintain. But that is because I am lazy. Many other distros enforce packagers to write a changelog and it gets done. So this is an Arch issue and not a pacman one. Feature is staying. Allan