Jonathan Wiltshire <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:50:30AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Rather, it would be good to have a facility similar to the way the > > Debian changelog is currently available: have the upstream changelog > > published in a predictable location by package name. > > Where the changelog is already part of the source package and has a > sensible name, and the package calls dh_installchangelogs, it's > already installed as /usr/share/doc/*/changelog and the Debian > changelog as changelog.Debian. The only unpredictable part of that is > whether upstream enclosed one in the first place.
This misses the point: that's not available using standard tools (e.g. pressinc ‘C’ in aptitude's browser) *before* making the decision whether to install a new upstream version. Since that feature is currently absent, I advocate Debian's changelog entry to summarise user-visible changes in the “New upstream version” entry, so that the prospective user of that version can find what changed in a predictable location before downloading the package. -- \ “If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.” —George | `\ Carlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
