On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/23/2011 04:19 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: >> >> I would like to bring up a point which has been annoying me for a while >> and >> I would like to get it out there. >> >> I will argue that the changelog feature is unnecessary in >> pacman/PKGBUILDs. >> >> 1.) It's a feature rarely used by anyone, e.g. there are changelogs which >> exist which haven't been updated in years which I encounter and remove >> right >> away. >> >> 2.)Svn log usually serves the same purpose, and I can not think of any >> benefits changelogs provide over svn log. >> >> 3.)I can not think of one package I have encountered that included a >> useful >> changelog. >> >> Some ways to go about removing it are: >> declare deprecated -> remove after some time >> or just remove changelog support right away >> The last option might be viable given its small audience. >> > +1 for all the reasons you stated. > > I favor removing changelog right away.
So confused. Should we remove deltas too? And support for bz2/xz packages and databases? Why on earth would we remove a feature that someone might use, even if Arch is not making extensive use of it? This is incredibly shortsighted. -Dan
