Another thing to define, preference for changelog from master branch that might include changes not in the package or (if available) for the most recent version packaged using $version ?
I agree: plaintext should be preferred and not mandatory for obvious reasons.
For xbps-0.52 itself it seems some packages end up in `<arch>-stagedata`. It happened for the update of `qtcreator-4.6.1` and I don't see a possible reason in `xbps-create(1)`. I think the how and why should be documented, no?
are debian changelogs ok ? for `xapps` they are the only option for plaintext logs and are available on the main repo under debian/changelog.
or should it be pointed to the github release page of xapps.