On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 August 2011 20:57, Joachim Breitner <m...@joachim-breitner.de> wrote: >> Maybe it would already help to add a "changelog-file" field to .cabal, >> just as with license-file, and reject packages on hackage that do not >> have this field and file, and later decide if we need a more >> standardized format for changelogs. > > I agree, but it would be nice to also have optional readme-file, > todo-file and doc-files fields (the latter to let us avoid banging > documentation in with "extra-source-files"). > > As for a standardised format... I'm not sure if we need to enforce a > particular format, as long as it's understandable.
Debian's packaging has a very strict changelog format where each entry combines a log entry with the package name, the version number, the author's name and email, and the date. This creates a very nice, centralized, authoritative source for these pieces of information that can't be accidentally omitted or allowed to become stale. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
