On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > Deltas have a future use, I would be crazy to suggest that we should remove them. There is nothing that could replace deltas easily. I would be even more crazy to suggest removing xz pkg support as we are currently using this format in all the packages. There is especially nothing that could replace this. > 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. I just want to bring this up because there is an alternative method (svn log) which I think works just as well if not better. > -Dan > >
