wishlist: add changelogs

[TimTaylor]

I've no idea how fiddly this would be but do you think there's any possibility to populate the changelogs for the rpms in copr. E.g. using the ouput from news ...

pkg <- "Rcpp"
dat <- news(Version == packageVersion(pkg), package = pkg)
txt <- dat$Text
if(length(txt) && any(txt != ""))
    cat(txt)
#> Changes in Rcpp API:
#> 
#>   • Support for user-defined databases has been removed (Kevin
#>     in #1314 fixing #1313)
#> 
#>   • The SET_TYPEOF function and macro is no longer used (Kevin
#>     in #1315 fixing #1312)
#> 
#>   • An errorneous cast to int affecting large return object has
#>     been removed (Dirk in #1335 fixing #1334)
#> 
#>   • Compilation on DragonFlyBSD is now supported (Gábor Csárdi
#>     in #1338)
#> 
#>   • Use read-only VECTOR_PTR and STRING_PTR only with with R
#>     4.5.0 or later (Kevin in #1342 fixing #1341) Changes in Rcpp Attributes:
#> 
#>   • The sourceCpp() function can now handle input files with
#>     read-only modes (Simon Guest in #1346 fixing #1345) Changes in Rcpp Deployment:
#> 
#>   • One unit tests for arm64 macOS has been adjusted; a macOS
#>     continuous integration runner was added (Dirk in #1324)
#> 
#>   • Authors@R is now used in DESCRIPTION as mandated by CRAN,
#>     the Rcpp.package.skeleton() function also creates it (Dirk
#>     in #1325 and #1327)
#> 
#>   • A single datetime format test has been adjusted to match a
#>     change in R-devel (Dirk in #1348 fixing #1347) Changes in Rcpp Documentation:
#> 
#>   • The Rcpp Modules vignette was extended slightly following
#>     #1322 (Dirk)
#> 
#>   • Pdf vignettes have been regenerated under Ghostscript
#>     10.03.1 to avoid a false positive by a Windows virus
#>     scanner (Iñaki in #1331)
#> 
#>   • A (large) number of (old) typos have been corrected in the
#>     vignettes (Marco Colombo in #1344)

My motivation is that I've started using the gui updater in KDE as, when available, it exposes this information quite nicely.

No worries if not as easy enough to set something up locally to do so.

[Enchufa2]

That's interesting, I didn't know about this news() function. I'll take a look to see if the different formats we find play well with the Changelog format.