Issue tracking in packages [was: Re: [R] change in, read.spss, package foreign?]

I would vote for allowing a URL or external file name in in DESCRIPTION,
whose contents could be automatically displayed for the user when
needed.  Our changelogs are automatically generated by CVS and are on
the web.

Normally I would have expected a NEWS file to contain information
similar to the R NEWS file 

   https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS

which is a less granular summary of the cvs or svn logs.  

   http://developer.r-project.org/R.svnlog.2005

For those of my packages that use svn I also have a NEWS
file.  The NEWS and log files are not the same.

If the DESCRIPTION file were to pull in log files off the net or
otherwise then I think it should be done at build time and incorporated 
into the distribution.

Perhaps we need the capability to reference both the NEWS file 
and the cvs/svn logs.