On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Joachim Breitner <m...@joachim-breitner.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Am Sonntag, den 14.08.2011, 00:29 +1000 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic: >> On 14 August 2011 00:25, David Fox <dds...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> Is this for the actual Debian packages, or even for source tarballs >> that they get from upstream? > > it’s for the packaging work, here is an example: > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/ghc/ghc_7.0.4-4/changelog > > But I think David is suggesting to adapt a similarly formatted changelog > file for Cabal packages, e.g. to display them on hackage. I am all for > that, as long as it does not prevent the introduction of changelogs > (e.g. by excessive bikeshedding or by having people lose interest > again).
If anyone wants to take a look, there is a parser for Debian's changelog format in the debian package, module Debian.Changes: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/debian _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
