AUR web interface

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FS#33080 - There should be a changelog for AUR packages

Attached to Project: AUR web interface
Opened by Lauri Niskanen (Ape) - Thursday, 13 December 2012, 11:48 GMT
Last edited by Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer) - Tuesday, 09 June 2015, 07:26 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Backend
Status Closed
Assigned To canyonknight (canyonknight)
Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2.0.1
Due in Version 4.0.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Currently, there is no way to browse old versions of AUR packages. Sometimes the maintainer makes a change, and there is no easy way to even see what the change was.

Having some kind of a changelog or at least a version history would make finding packaging regressions so much easier. Sometimes there may be even destructive changes and we need a way to rollback those. A freely formed maintainer comment (e.g. what issue was fixed with the change) for each package change should be encouraged.
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Closed by  Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer)
Tuesday, 09 June 2015, 07:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  Implemented in 4.0.0-rc1.
Comment by Karol Błażewicz (karol) - Friday, 14 December 2012, 00:39 GMT
What about http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/ ?
Comment by canyonknight (canyonknight) - Wednesday, 02 January 2013, 23:29 GMT
This would require version control of all AUR packages. Such an implementation would depend on  FS#23010 .
Comment by Alexander Ost (azara) - Sunday, 02 June 2013, 07:57 GMT
How about a "soft" but simple solution:
whenever a packager provides a 'changelog' entry in the PKGBUILD, make that changelog accessible in the AUR web interface (e.g., add a "View Changelog" link to the "Package Actions" section).

Increasing the visibility of package changelogs in this way may also encourage maintainers to actually add a changelog to their package :)

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