Re: Support for bringing package change logs to the user's attention

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Noam Postavsky <address@hidden> writes:

> On 25 May 2018 at 12:40, Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> The package format section of the README in Elpa already mentions:
>>
>> - A "News:" section (or "NEWS" file) can/should be used to list the
>>   user-visible changes of each version.
>>
>> It's not clear to me that anything is actually done with that
>> information.
>
> It shows up on the GNU ELPA web page of the package, at least:
>
> https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/yasnippet.html (scroll down to "News")

Oh, interesting. It looks like the server does look for either a NEWS
file or a ";;; News:" section in the package file, but it doesn't seem
to do any further parsing. I guess it would be an additional (boring)
bit of work to write elisp to try to extract version-specific sections
from that text.

Eric