Attila said... > On Wednesday 04 November 2009 10:28:58 Andrew Flegg wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 09:03, <tero.k...@nokia.com> wrote: > > > Two days later I notice a blinking orange light in my status bar. I see > > > a new version of the application. I install, I check what has changed > > > (minor or major?), I run my tests and thumb it up again. > > > > Aside: how do you check what has changed? > > This is one of the things I miss sorely from the Application Manager. Sure, > you can see the description and version, but not things like free/non-free, > the repo and last, but not least, the changelog (maybe based on the > debian/changelog most packages have, anyway).
For users AppMgr has a user-friendly alternative: you specify an update description in the control file. Now that I think of it this needs to go into the extras testing rules: any package which is already in Extras must specify an update description to give people information on why they should upgrade. But the update description does not help with testing: (a) it is user friendly text, not a developer changelog and (b) the description is vs. the version already in Extras not vs. the last extras-testing version. It sounds like it would be useful to start including changelog in Maemo packages and make it visible from the package page. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
