On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:59:58 +0100, Matti Bickel <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> As an alternative, let the ebuild provide a variable that points to > upstreams online Changelog or something, so you as a human can go parse > it yourself. But then you could also just take the HOMEPAGE variable > that's already there. There is an optional <changelog> tag in metadata.xml. "Should contain a URL where the location of the upstream changelog can be found. The URL must be version independent and must point to a changelog which is only updated on new releases of the corresponding package. (This also implies that one can link to an automatically updated changelog in case of vcs snapshots only.) " http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4#doc_chap2 -Jeremy
