Am Donnerstag, den 23.06.2011, 15:48 -0500 schrieb Dan McGee: --8<--

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We use changelogs quite extensively, and all should keep in mind that

pacman -Qc PACKAGENAME

will help any user that doesn't need to know where your PKGBUILD tree is managed / tracked / whatever...

I would suggest that makepkg should be extended to have a way to add the output of a command (e.g. "svn log") as changelog to a package...

That would make the life easier for any maintainer and would solve the problem even for the lazy arch package maintainers... :-P

Agree with you here- this seems like it would be a useful addition. Just calling out to a CHANGELOG_SCRIPT or something would be pretty awesome. Arch Linux would use svn log --limit <date> of some sort, other distros using git to track their repos could use git logs, etc.

If you don't think you're interested in implementing this, I'd at least suggest opening a feature request for it.

Have some things to take care of for upstart first and will take a look at it when i'm done with it. Also have som cleanup work for pacman in my pipe but havn't had time to write down a mail for the list and for implementing it. (Mostly about a removal of '.d' suffix on /etc/pacman.d as its misnamed with respect to all other users of a '.d' suffix in etc and a rework of rate mirrors that would make a packages like "mirrors-{africa,asia,europe,{north,south}america}" possible without much of a hassle for pacman...) Marc