Bug 116424

Summary:	Changelog not available
Product:	LibreOffice Online	Reporter:	Michiel Janssens <michiel>
Component:	LibreOffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	aron.budea, samuel.mehrbrodt, timar74, xiscofauli
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Michiel Janssens 2018-03-15 19:45:24 UTC

Hoping that I'm reporting at the right location, I was directed here from the website https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/

Collabora Online Development Edition is installed  via instructions on:
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
for ubuntu 16.04

It's running fine and thanks for making this possible.
There are some updates for CODE ready to be installed at the moment on my system.
Partial output from apt-get upgrade -s:
Inst collaboraofficebasis5.3-core [5.3.10.36-36] (5.3.10.43-43 www.collaboraoffice.com [amd64]) []

Of course I would like to know what the changes will be if I decide to upgrade.
Output for apt-get changelog collaboraofficebasis5.3-core:

E: Failed to fetch changelog:/collaboraofficebasis5.3-core.changelog  Changelog unavailable for collaboraofficebasis5.3-core=5.3.10.43-43

It would be nice to see a changelog for the packages.

Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2018-04-17 11:20:28 UTC

@Andras, One for you ?

Comment 2 Andras Timar 2018-04-18 12:17:11 UTC

I don't think I will work on this. It is not supported by LibreOffice build system. List of changes is available in our version control system, for example:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?qt=range&q=cp-5.3-36..cp-5.3-43

Comment 3 Michiel Janssens 2018-04-18 17:16:19 UTC

Hi Andreas,

the list you mention can be read and understood by a developer.
However a sysadmin or just a home user using your CODE packages just would like to see the major highlights of the expected changes, f.e. CVE fixes, bug fixes or feature updates.

That is worded nicely here:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#document-ch-source
"Changes in the Debian version of the package should be briefly explained in this file"

And apparently the file that covers it:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#s-changelogs

I'm not a linux packager but I suppose that in debian/ubuntu, the changelogs will likely never be an automated task of a build system, rather a manual task for the maintainer releasing a package update.

Comment 4 Aron Budea 2018-10-25 18:54:12 UTC

Let's confirm this, it'd be nice to figure out a way to semi-automate this and the format and whatnot upstream.

Comment 5 Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2019-09-06 14:07:18 UTC

For the last few releases, there always was a "Online" section in the release notes:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.3#Online
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.2#Online
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.1#Online

That should be enough from TDF side. Adding changelog to specific packages is up to the packager :)