[aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files

2008-05-05 Thread Dennis Craven
Hi list,

I often find it useful (as do many I'm sure) to keep ChangeLog files
up to date when maintaining things like Arch packages etc. Is it bad
practice to include this file in the tarball submitted to the AUR?

Cheers,
~djc



Re: [aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files

2008-05-05 Thread Loui
On Mon, 5 May 2008 18:41:35 -0400
"Dennis Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I often find it useful (as do many I'm sure) to keep ChangeLog files
> up to date when maintaining things like Arch packages etc. Is it bad
> practice to include this file in the tarball submitted to the AUR?

I think it's fine and dandy.



Re: [aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files

2008-05-06 Thread DaNiMoTh
2008/5/6 Loui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Mon, 5 May 2008 18:41:35 -0400
> "Dennis Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I often find it useful (as do many I'm sure) to keep ChangeLog files
> > up to date when maintaining things like Arch packages etc. Is it bad
> > practice to include this file in the tarball submitted to the AUR?
>
> I think it's fine and dandy.
>

Me too. Also, you can copy/paste on comments page ( but I think you
already do it :P )

Are TUs that don't use often this feature :)



Re: [aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files

2008-05-06 Thread Marcel W. Wysocki
On Tue, 6 May 2008 10:11:46 +0200
DaNiMoTh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 2008/5/6 Loui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > On Mon, 5 May 2008 18:41:35 -0400
> > "Dennis Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I often find it useful (as do many I'm sure) to keep ChangeLog files
> > > up to date when maintaining things like Arch packages etc. Is it bad
> > > practice to include this file in the tarball submitted to the AUR?
> >
> > I think it's fine and dandy.
> >
> 
> Me too. Also, you can copy/paste on comments page ( but I think you
> already do it :P )
> 
> Are TUs that don't use often this feature :)

i prefer to just put it on the comments

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Re: [aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files

2008-05-06 Thread bardo
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:11 AM, DaNiMoTh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Are TUs that don't use often this feature :)

I have detailed changelogs in almost all of my community packages. I
don't use them in unsupported, however :-D

Corrado



Re: [aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files

2008-05-06 Thread Dennis Craven
Okay, it seems nobody is dead against them. I just didn't want to
break some policy that I wasn't aware of. I've uploaded my latest
package including the ChangeLog. We'll see if anyone objects :).

Thanks for all of your input,
~djc



Re: [aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files

2008-05-06 Thread Xavier
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Dennis Craven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, it seems nobody is dead against them. I just didn't want to
>  break some policy that I wasn't aware of. I've uploaded my latest
>  package including the ChangeLog. We'll see if anyone objects :).
>

I don't see any reasons to object. Actually, several users would like
to see more changelogs. But then some packagers feel like it's a bit a
waste of time, that the info is already available (cvs/svn logs for
packages in repos, AUR comments for unsupported).
But any packagers who find them useful should definitely include them
in their packages.

Have a look at /usr/share/pacman/ChangeLog.proto (from pacman package)
But just for clarification, you want to log the changes in your
package, right, not upstream changes. Because arch packages changelogs
are for arch package changes.



Re: [aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files

2008-05-06 Thread Geoffroy Carrier
On 5/6/08, Dennis Craven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, it seems nobody is dead against them. I just didn't want to
>  break some policy that I wasn't aware of. I've uploaded my latest
>  package including the ChangeLog. We'll see if anyone objects :).
Typically not exactly related, but I always use mercurial and vim.
Is there some way with any of these apps, or an external tool, to
easily add an entry in a Changelog?
Google may be my friend...

-- 
Geoffroy Carrier



Re: [aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files

2008-05-06 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Wed 2008-05-07 02:50 , Geoffroy Carrier wrote:
> On 5/6/08, Dennis Craven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Okay, it seems nobody is dead against them. I just didn't want to
> >  break some policy that I wasn't aware of. I've uploaded my latest
> >  package including the ChangeLog. We'll see if anyone objects :).
> Typically not exactly related, but I always use mercurial and vim.
> Is there some way with any of these apps, or an external tool, to
> easily add an entry in a Changelog?
> Google may be my friend...

In Vim (if you set ft=changelog) you can add an entry with o
Usually  is "\".
As you can see in /usr/share/vim/ftplugin/changelog.vim , it
reads the EMAIL environment variable, so you should set it to something
like EMAIL="Your Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" (e.g. in ~/.bashrc). 

HTH, 

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Re: [aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files

2008-05-07 Thread DaNiMoTh
2008/5/7 Alessio Bolognino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Wed 2008-05-07 02:50 , Geoffroy Carrier wrote:
> > On 5/6/08, Dennis Craven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Okay, it seems nobody is dead against them. I just didn't want to
> > >  break some policy that I wasn't aware of. I've uploaded my latest
> > >  package including the ChangeLog. We'll see if anyone objects :).
> > Typically not exactly related, but I always use mercurial and vim.
> > Is there some way with any of these apps, or an external tool, to
> > easily add an entry in a Changelog?
> > Google may be my friend...
>
> In Vim (if you set ft=changelog) you can add an entry with o
> Usually  is "\".
> As you can see in /usr/share/vim/ftplugin/changelog.vim , it
> reads the EMAIL environment variable, so you should set it to something
> like EMAIL="Your Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" (e.g. in ~/.bashrc).
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Alessio (molok) Bolognino
>
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>

I was thinking to make a python app that easy do this work.. when I
finish I will publish it here ( but using vim is always the best way
to do things )



Re: [aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files

2008-05-07 Thread Dennis Craven
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Geoffroy Carrier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Is there some way with any of these apps, or an external tool, to
>  easily add an entry in a Changelog?

I use this script[1]. It works very well.

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1631

Cheers,
~djc