On 09/02/14 20:37, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org> wrote: >> Pacman does not have a wiki... so I guess you are talking about Arch >> policy, in which case I believe the answer would be no. If upstream >> wanted their ChangeLog installed to your system, they would do that on >> "make install". > > So... we're back to what I was saying a couple of emails ago. *shrugs* > But yes, I was talking about Arch in that instance. > Can you explain why you are against the ability to add upstream > changelogs to the PKGBUILD (in a declarative way, that is)? >
It is not the package managers job to maintain information about upstream development. The job for a package manager is to maintain information about the actual package file. Hence the only changelog that is appropriate is the changelog of the packaging process. A
