Juergen Weigert wrote:
I did not mean to say that the full upstream changelog should be in our changelog. My point is that an excerpt is dubious, as it is both too noisy and too crippled. If we can agree that simply stating the version-number is good enough, fine with me. Although a pointer to upstream would still be no harm.
URL is useless when you have no connectivity. Upstream changes should be packaged (ChangeLog, NEWS, etc.) and if there is none, packager could create it (and copy the changes from website or so, but these cases are rare). If we will follow that, it would suffice to put this into our changes: - updated to 1.2.3 (see NEWS)
This requires to have the package installed first. I'd like to give the user as much information as possible before he installs.
When the package is downloaded, it really is not a big difference to do "rpm -qp --changelog pkg.rpm" or to view it contents using mc and browse for the right file. It would be good if there were changes in repository metadata BEFORE downloading the package to system, but this is not possible even now AFAIK. -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org