Missing changelog for libvirt (python)
canihavesomecoffee opened this issue · comments
Libvirt as a python library does not contain a changelog, which makes it a bit harder to judge the upgrade process.
An example is CCExtractor/sample-platform#365.
After a search I found the change log here:
- https://libvirt.org/news.html
- https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=docs/news.xml;h=ae4ee444d0f6acd0c8e51122ceb36f1c914f55fa;hb=HEAD
Is there a way to update DependaBot to be able to include this changelog?
Hi @canihavesomecoffee, thanks for using dependabot!
It seems like this happens because libvirt has a ChangeLog file in the root of their project:
However, this merely states:
libvirt ChangeLog
=================
The libvirt project doesn't include a detailed ChangeLog in its release
archives.
If you're interested in the full list of changes made to libvirt since
the project was started, you can clone the git repository from
https://libvirt.org/git/libvirt.git
and browse them locally using your favorite git history viewer or,
alternatively, browse them online at
https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=log
When dependabot searches for the changelog it checks the root directory of a project for these files: changelog news changes history release whatsnew and does a diff on the new vs old version, which in this case won't have changed.
It would be pretty hard for us to support grabbing the changes from the docs/news.xml file in a generic way.
I would suggest asking the maintainer to start using the ChangeLog file as it's pretty common practice, and it seems that they are already writing the changelog currently.
Thank you for the quick reply & explanation.
I'll then get in touch with the developers and see if it's possible to get this working :)
I'll close this issue then for now as it's more something they can do rather than what DependaBot should do.