2014-04-21 22:26 GMT+01:00 Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]>: > I also keep thinking that it > would be nice to have a dedicated place for the changelog per package in an > easy-to-parse format (probably in ReST/Markdown?) which could be displayed > on pkgutil -u (store the previous changelog before removal and diff to the > newly installed one). Also Catalog changediffs could be generated that way.
I'm not super familiar with the changelog files, but they seem to have a well defined format, so we should first look if there already are parsers. So it might be fine to keep the regular changelog format, and use a parser whenever we want to process the data. Checking if the changelog syntax is correct can be part of package checking. I also had this idea that instead of using VERSION in the Makefile, we could take the latest version from changelog: VERSION = $(call extract_version_from_changelog) The idea is not mine, it's stolen from Debian, as usual. :) Maciej
