Lack of update information

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Tue Jan 27 00:09:56 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Julian Sikorski wrote:
> > While I'm always trying to be precise in my update notes, I only
> > maintain a handful of packages. I can understand how putting verbose
> > update notes can be a daunting task. Also, what's the problem of going
> > to upstream website to check what changed in 2.16.2?

> Problem is finding out such information. It isn't easy at all for end
> users to do and sometimes doesn't exist in the upstream website. It
> would be very useful if package maintainers spend a little bit more
> time including more complete descriptions in the updates. Note that, I
> am referring here to description that is part of bodhi update and not
> the changelog which can be very brief.

The %changelog remains. I'd prefer a decent entry there, and copy that (by
default?) here.
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