Task:Providing changes since last version of a package
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When the XML file isn't found, fallback to ChangeLog and changelog. [Proposed by Tim Teulings] | When the XML file isn't found, fallback to ChangeLog and changelog. [Proposed by Tim Teulings] | ||
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| + | I vote for this solution. | ||
| + | Actually a small tool could be created to convert the XML to TXT (thus becoming a regular ChangeLog file)--[[User:anidel|anidel]] 15:33, 10 July 2008 (UTC) | ||
=== Additional header in debian/control === | === Additional header in debian/control === | ||
Revision as of 15:33, 10 July 2008
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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="Invalid language.
You need to specify a language like this: <source lang="html4strict">...</source>
Supported languages for syntax highlighting:
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