Excerpts from Daniel M. Capella's message of September 7, 2019 17:20:
> Would it be possible for the PKGBUILD to allow users to specify a file to set > for 'changelog=' relative to $srcdir?This is non-trivial. Consider that something simple in the global scope such as: changelog=$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/NEWS At the time this var is read, $srcdir isn't yet defined, and while $pkgver *is* defined, it's subject to change via a pkgver() function. You can avoid some of this pain if you insist that changelog be partof the package() function, but that would be highly unusual/annoying. Alternatives of re-sourcing the PKGBUILD from within user-functions are equally hard to swallow and probably have strange side effects.How about `changelog="$pkgdir"/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/NEWS`? changelog could also be made capable of holding a link to where upstream hosts its release notes, especially when they have pretty formatting and further links to issues/PR's/commits/etc, eg. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0/releasenotes/.
That has the same definition time problem, and breaks down for split packages.
-- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg :: SA0DEM
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