Your script

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Wed Apr 23 19:56:09 CEST 2014


Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> Hi Rafi,
>
> I noticed you are working on a changelog edit script. This is superuseful
> and I wanted to have that for a very long time. 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.
>
> Thoughts?

I implemented this kind of mechanism when started to package for Debian
(private projects). What was very useful, aside the "Debian Way" is the
usage of svn2cl, which extract the last commit messages from
subversion. A must.
-- 
Peter


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