[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Introduce new PKGBUILD variable `changelog`

[Cedric Staniewski]

Loui Chang wrote:
> On Sat 10 Oct 2009 16:40 +0200, Xavier wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This looked good to me.
>>>
>> Sorry for the double mail.
>>
>> I just had one question :
>> Will every package maintainer figure out easily that his ChangeLog is
>> no longer included ?
>> Or do we need a transition period deprecating the old way and
>> including the new one ?
> 
> I'd say just jump to the new behaviour.
> It doesn't seem like ChangeLog is used often or for anything too
> important yet.
> 

I second this, it's not worth the effort.
By the way, was makepkg's changelog functionality documented somewhere? If not (couldn't find anything), I would expect that a maintainer, who used a changelog before, is kind enough to figure out the new behavior by reading the man pages.