On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:58:01PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
[...]
> If you use a version control system, there are cvs2cl, svn2cl, git2cl
> and probably other scripts to convert your commit messages into
> GNU-style ChangeLog files, no need to reinvent the wheel here.
[...]
I did anyway--using GitP
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 14:00 +, Seger, Mark wrote:
> Is there any standard (or desired format). Since I intend to include
> both my release notes and an automatically generated changelog, it
> should be pretty easy to create the log headers in any format people
> would like to see.
As an up
Paul Wise writes:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> There's an open Policy bug about this, which is where it should probably
>> be discussed. When packaging other people's software, I install the
>> upstream ChangeLog as changelog.gz and NEWS as NEWS.gz.
> For some pack
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> There's an open Policy bug about this, which is where it should probably
> be discussed. When packaging other people's software, I install the
> upstream ChangeLog as changelog.gz and NEWS as NEWS.gz.
For some packages where upstream ignore
Ben Finney writes:
> Russ Allbery writes:
>> All of the packages for which I'm both upstream and the Debian packager
>> have no traditional ChangeLog file, only NEWS, and install the upstream
>> NEWS file as /usr/share/doc//changelog.gz.
> Perhaps that could be made clear; it's surely an obviou
Russ Allbery writes:
> I think NEWS is far and away the more useful of the two files. Usually
> the full changelog has an overwhelming amount of detail and isn't
> horribly useful at answering users' questions.
How would you relate this valuation against the Lintian checks? Should
Lintian care l
Paul Wise writes:
> If you use a version control system, there are cvs2cl, svn2cl, git2cl
> and probably other scripts to convert your commit messages into
> GNU-style ChangeLog files, no need to reinvent the wheel here.
For Bazaar, this is an option to the ‘log’ command:
bzr log --log-form
Paul Wise writes:
> Please be aware of the difference between NEWS files and ChangeLog files
> in the GNU coding standards document. Most upstreams completely ignore
> this difference. GNU NEWS[3] files are a list of user-visible changes
> for each release. The GNU coding standards document doesn
Some additional comments from me that may or may not be worth reading.
Paul Wise wrote:
> The GNU coding standards document doesn't recommend any specific
> format for NEWS files.
Right -- the format is (and has always been) free-form; it's usually a
nested list suitable for Emacs' outline-mode.
Il giorno dom, 10/01/2010 alle 22.58 +0800, Paul Wise ha scritto:
> I assume you are talking about the upstream ChangeLog rather than
> debian/changelog.
>
> The only standard I am aware of for that is the one described in the
> GNU coding standards document[1].
The suggested document doesn't men
I assume you are talking about the upstream ChangeLog rather than
debian/changelog.
The only standard I am aware of for that is the one described in the
GNU coding standards document[1]. Many upstreams completely ignore it
and the recommended file naming (ChangeLog not CHANGES.TXT or one of
the ot
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