Discussion about the 'changelog' option from PKGBUILD

Question

Hi people,
I am curious about the changelog option of PKGBUILD[1]. I don't remember seeing many packages (if any!) using that option.
I stumbled upon this when I viewed the feh[2] PKGBUILD[3], which has just been updated. This PKGBUILD doesn't use such option, but feh ships with a changelog file:
thiago@arch ~ $ head /usr/share/doc/feh/ChangeLog
Sun, 27 Apr 2014 20:28:02 +0200 Daniel Friesel <[email protected]>
* Release v2.11
* Patch by Michael Vorburger: Fix erroneous free() in case of failed
scandir (closes #140, #147)
* Patch by rangerer: --randomize: re-randomize after list is through
(closes #154)
* When setting a wallpaper from a URL, do not try to store it as
absolute path in .fehbg (closes #153)
* Add --scroll-step <px> option to change scroll_{up,left,down,right}
Well, the specific question about feh is: should I file a bug report about this?
Now, about changelogs in general: should we care about this feature?
From the packages I currently have installed, I found that only 7 of them use the changelog option. You can quickly count yours with:
thiago@arch ~ $ pacman -Qc > output; grep -v 'no changelog' output | grep 'Changelog for'
Changelog for gdal:
Changelog for geos:
Changelog for kchmviewer:
Changelog for libgeotiff:
Changelog for powertop:
Changelog for proj:
Changelog for spotify:
(a couple of error messages also appears, from packages without changelogs in their PKGBUILDs).
[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#changelog
[2]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/feh/
[3]: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … ckages/feh
There is also an old discussion here[4].
[4]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70557
From Allan's response on #13, I had an idea: what if pacman -Qc (or similar), instead of showing the changelog pointed out in the PKGBUILD, showed us the last commit(s) from our official SVN repo? Would be relevant to open a new feature request on the bugtracker with this idea?
Last edited by thiagowfx (2014-04-28 03:59:41)

Answer 1

There are many causes for each of the errors mention.  It would be best to put one issue to the forum at a time.  For example, some of these issues occur then tasks are deleted from projects but a timesheet has been submitted.   Depending
on the scenario, some of these issues have been fixed with the latest service pack.
Other issues are due to bad scheduling habits with the project managers and so first determining what they have done can help resolve some the issues.
_error Loading, is because something is NULL in the data and the jave is choking when it build the form. Again, these may be because of delete tasks, resources, projects  or someone doing copying and pasting of rows.
cheers!
PS.  Train your PM to not COPY and PASTE rows in project schedules.  It can be done, but it can create problems.  There are over 500 fields and some have unique data and the copy paste creates havic.
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