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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ebuild function to show package changelog
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:14:21 +0000
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:59:58 +0100, Matti Bickel <mabi@g.o> wrote:

> As an alternative, let the ebuild provide a variable that points to
> upstreams online Changelog or something, so you as a human can go parse
> it yourself. But then you could also just take the HOMEPAGE variable
> that's already there.

There is an optional <changelog> tag in metadata.xml.

"Should contain a URL where the location of the upstream changelog can be
found. The URL must be version independent and must point to a changelog
which is only updated on new releases of the corresponding package. (This
also implies that one can link to an automatically updated changelog in
case of vcs snapshots only.) "

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4#doc_chap2

-Jeremy


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