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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org>
To: <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ebuild function to show package changelog
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:14:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <804f816de3e8cf639b2701ca3e93ab7d@jolexa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9A730E.5090007@gentoo.org>


On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:59:58 +0100, Matti Bickel <mabi@gentoo.org> wrote:

> As an alternative, let the ebuild provide a variable that points to
> upstreams online Changelog or something, so you as a human can go parse
> it yourself. But then you could also just take the HOMEPAGE variable
> that's already there.

There is an optional <changelog> tag in metadata.xml.

"Should contain a URL where the location of the upstream changelog can be
found. The URL must be version independent and must point to a changelog
which is only updated on new releases of the corresponding package. (This
also implies that one can link to an automatically updated changelog in
case of vcs snapshots only.) "

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4#doc_chap2

-Jeremy



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-12 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-12 15:16 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ebuild function to show package changelog Angelo Arrifano
2010-03-12 15:33 ` William Hubbs
2010-03-12 15:51   ` Angelo Arrifano
2010-03-12 16:12     ` William Hubbs
2010-03-12 16:59 ` Matti Bickel
2010-03-12 17:14   ` Jeremy Olexa [this message]
2010-03-12 17:26     ` Matti Bickel
2010-03-12 18:59   ` Angelo Arrifano

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