[pacman-dev] [abs] Proto files and Makeworld

[Xavier]

Travis Willard wrote:
> 
> +1 - sounds fine by me.  I'll add the necessary readme to the package...
> when I make the package. :P
> 
> I think we should offer a ChangeLog.proto too, in an attempt to help
> standardize our changelog format.  Something like as was mentioned in a
> semi-recent email thread... that I can't find.  I've got it bookmarked at
> home, but it was something like:
> 
> date <email at address.org>
> 
>     * pkgname-pkgver-pkgrel
>     Reason we changed stuff
>     Another reason we changed stuff
>     gcc-4.1.patch: Removed, no longer needed
> 
> and so on.
> 

Aaron just gave the link yesterday :)
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-January/004020.html

Your example looks fine though. Just two unimportant comments :
- the packager name is missing
- I wanted to make it explicit that the file should end with just one 
newline. Some ChangeLog don't even have one newline, so pacman needs to 
add one manually. And then the other ChangeLog that already had two 
newlines (== one empty line at the end) end up with two empty lines, 
which doesn't look very nice.