#244: Add Changelog summary feature to sdist ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by ross): I think a VCS log would provide too much extraneous detail. You certainly wouldn't want to see it on the recent changes list. As a package user, I would want a short paragraph describing the user-visible changes (as requested in #299), e.g. for the above Monadius example: Packaging fixes and internal cleanup: no change to API. That seems to be the convention on CPAN, Debian, Gentoo, etc. Such a precis needs to be done manually, though the author would doubtless find VCS logs and API comparison tools useful as source material. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/244#comment:10 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects