On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:33:51AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: [..] > > > > This apt-changelog utility sounds quite helfpul. Is this going to get > > > > into the regular apt-utils package (within Debian) too? > > > > > > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/ and http://changelogs.debian.net are > > > currently > > > not compatible with one another, so apt-changelog might require a bit of > > > porting for Debian.
There is a native c++ implementation for apt-changelogs now in lp:~mvo/apt/apt-get-changelogs that follows the directory layout that http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/ is using. We use the same layout (in fact mostly the same tool :) in changelogs.ubuntu.com > > Actually, changelogs.debian.net isn't the proper place, > > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/ is the correct one - and they > > don't look that incompatible with each other. ;) They should be compatible. The only addition we do in changelogs.ubuntu.com is that there are additional symlinks if source_ver!=binary_ver (like for gcc-defaults). This fixes changelog fetching on installs with deb-src disabled for tools like gcc. It would be nice to include something like this to debian as well, this way the code in apt could also be simplified. > > Anyways, we are even currently about to refactor the changelogs/ part > > of the packages site because the archive tools are extracing these > > information for us and we'll incorporate information from packages in > > backports and make it possible to later incorporate extractions from > > security too once they are available. In the light of that there might > > be an additional directory in there, saying debian, debian-backports and > > debian-security, but appart from that it will stay the same. > > > > Please notice that we have a changelog.html and changelog.txt in there > > (and our changelog sends the proper encoding back - a thing you might > > want to fix on changelogs.ubuntu ;)) > > > > It might be interesting to work with the person that is responsible for > > changelogs.ubuntu.com - because I'm not too sure if this should really > > be kept seperate, or what the background for that was actually. > That's Michael Vogt. I've added him to the CC list. I would love to serve the changelogs via packages.ubuntu.com (that is what you propose, right?) and stop maintaining changelogs.ubuntu.com. We have it since a long time because we need a place to store our changelogs without relying on launchpad.net. I'm not attached to it, I just want a place that gives me raw changelogs files. Thanks, Michael -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
