On 19 November 2010 07:26, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Andreas Radke <[email protected]> wrote: >> Maybe only I missed it: I just found that all my packages that used to >> pickup the "ChangeLog" file don't show anything in pacman -Qc! >> >> http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=2cabe336eb33e443819a1d9d46b0c5bcceaa7e87 >> >> It seems I missed the note in the NEWS file of pacmans 3.4.0 release. >> Just a heads up. >> >> Is it worth the work to update the changelog at all? Any plans on >> integrating a Changelog to the packages website? Do we need some >> convention how to order and format the file? >> >> [andy...@workstation64 tmp]$ find /var/lib/pacman/ | grep changelog | >> wc -l 48 >> >> Not many packages seem to use that feature. >> >> -Andy >> > > I don't think it's worthwhile to add ChangeLog support to the website. > Personnally, I've started to remove ChangeLog from my packages. > Usually it's just upstream update plus when another dev rebuild/fix > your package they forget or don't bother to update the ChangeLog. I'm > not the only one doing that. I update the abs tree daily and there is > a definite trend going on about removing ChangeLog from the repos. > > The pacman package doesn't even have a ChangeLog. ;)
Ditto. I've tried to get into the habit a few times, but seeing changelogs with the last entry being made over a year ago does not help.
