[pacman-dev] Discussion on changelogs

[Allan McRae]

On 09/02/14 20:19, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sure it does.  Taking the Debian approach:
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>> install -Dm644 ChangeLog $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/ChangeLog
> 
> In that case, we need to "officialise" it in the wiki imo.
> I'm still strongly in favour of adding a keyword/function to PKGBUILD.
> I believe in declarativeness... that's a word, right?

Pacman does not have a wiki...  so I guess you are talking about Arch
policy, in which case I believe the answer would be no.  If upstream
wanted their ChangeLog installed to your system, they would do that on
"make install".

Allan