Task:Providing changes since last version of a package

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== Background ==
== Background ==
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For the Application manager and downloads.maemo.org it would be nice to have automatically updated information about changes since last version of a package. It would be good to have the change information available inside a package.
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For the Application Manager and downloads.maemo.org it would be nice to have automatically updated information about changes since last version of a package. It would be good to have the change information available inside a package.
== Problems ==
== Problems ==

Revision as of 15:31, 10 July 2008

Contents

Background

For the Application Manager and downloads.maemo.org it would be nice to have automatically updated information about changes since last version of a package. It would be good to have the change information available inside a package.

Problems

debian package changelog

The debian package changelog describes changed to the package made by the package maintainer. If maintainer and developer are different a changelog entry for a major relase could just contain "New upstream version".

ChangeLog

Another option would be to use the ChangeLog of the original source package - this would contain upstream documentation to changes in the original software. You would expect to find new features there. However upstream information might contain information of varying detail. Another problem is that the ChangeLog is "owned" by upstream, the maintainer can/should not change it.

Proposed solutions

XML file

Add a Maemo specific XML file for each package.

An example: 

<maemo-release-changelog>
<revision release-date="2008-07-07 23:05:00" revision="<package revision>">
  <description>
    Packages new upstream version.
  </description>
</revision>
<release release-date="2008-07-01 11:55:00" version="

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