[Rd] Issue tracking in packages

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Sat Sep 10 18:48:10 CEST 2005


On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Seth Falcon wrote:
> For what its worth, I don't like this idea of adding a ChangeLog field
> to the DESCRIPTION file.
>
> Agreeing upon a standard location for NEWS or CHANGES or some such
> seems a more simple solution.  As long as the presence of such a file
> is *optional*.  And if the location really needs to be at the top,
> then the build tools could grab it from there as they do the
> DESCRIPTION file.

We're certainly agreed on its being optional.

 	-thomas



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