On 24/06/11 01:04, Dan McGee 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?
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.
Agreed. It is not being removed.
As an Arch packager, I have to admit I find changlogs to be a pain to
maintain. But that is because I am lazy. Many other distros enforce
packagers to write a changelog and it gets done. So this is an Arch
issue and not a pacman one.
Feature is staying.
Allan
