Agreed! I put in a request for this about a year ago: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/299 There is a bit of follow-up discussion there. John +++ Joachim Breitner [Aug 06 09 16:27 ]:
Hi,
(this is mostly a rant, but hopefully a constructive one)
the Haskell/cabal/hackage eco system is pretty great, as we all know. But there is one huge gaping omission there: Changelogs!
I’m involved in packaging Haskell stuff for Debian. Now, the Debian tools we have for that tell me „Hlint has a new version, 1.6.5, which is newer than the one you packages, 1.6.4.
Huh, nice. What has changed? Is it relevant for Debian? Is it worth a new upload? There is no easy way to find out:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hlint lists no changes http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/hlint/ lists no changes (and not every package has a homepage) http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/darcs/hlint/ contains on Changes file (and not every package has a (linked) darcs repository) http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/darcs/hlint/ also has no web frontend.
Which leaves me with the option of getting the darcs repo and looking through "darcs changes". If I know of a repository for the package.
So please, package authors, put Changes files in your packages and keep the current for now.
And cabal/hackage guys: Llease introduce a standard Changes format for cabal packages so that http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hlint readily lists (or links to) changes.
Thanks, Joachim
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