Bug#576820: Please link to changelogs if available at packages.debian.org/changelog
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> On Wed Apr 07, 2010 at 15:05:19 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> > Package: snapshot.debian.org
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Hi, It would be nice if a link to the changelog of the package (and maybe
> > version as well) could be added, if the package is available at http://packages
> > .debian.org/changelogs/pool/$dist/$char/$package/current/changelog.html I
> > would see that as a nice feature when looking into regressions.
>
> Very dumb idea how to implement that: if we have a full packages.d.o
> mirror we could check if the file exists, and link to it. If it does
> not, do not show any changelog options. And we always would show the
> newest one, which i think is acceptable.
>
> One stat should not be that expensive.
Requiring a full mirror of packages.d.o does not scale.
Ftp-master plans on exporting changelogs too, and maybe/hopefully they
will provide a sane interface and a nice index file we can use for this
purpose.
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