Re: [pacman-dev] Proposed Changelog Feature

2019-09-07 Thread Johannes Löthberg
Excerpts from Daniel M. Capella's message of September 7, 2019 17:20: > Would it be possible for the PKGBUILD to allow users to specify a file to set > for 'changelog=' relative to $srcdir? This is non-trivial. Consider that something simple in the global scope such as:

Re: [pacman-dev] Proposed Changelog Feature

2019-09-07 Thread Daniel M. Capella
> > Would it be possible for the PKGBUILD to allow users to specify a file to > > set > > for 'changelog=' relative to $srcdir? > > This is non-trivial. Consider that something simple in the global scope > such as: > > changelog=$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/NEWS > > At the time this var is read,

Re: [pacman-dev] Starting Pacman development

2019-09-07 Thread Matthew Sexton
On Friday, September 6, 2019 4:51:04 AM EDT Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On 09/05/19 at 10:42pm, Eli Schwartz wrote: > > > > Does anything in particular about pacman or package managers in general > > interest you? That is generally the best way to start. :) > > > > If you just want some

Re: [pacman-dev] Proposed Changelog Feature

2019-09-07 Thread Dave Reisner
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:51:53PM -0700, Hong Shick Pak wrote: > Hello! > > I noticed that PKGBUILD supports a 'changelog=' field to specify a file that > contains release notes for that package and this is query-able via 'pacman -Qc > '. A lot of software these days maintain a CHANGELOG.md or