Draft: simple update description guidelines

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jan 27 19:52:31 UTC 2009


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:48:45PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> * All Updates must refer to a upstream changelog or equivalent if one  
>> exists. Otherwise a brief description (a couple of sentence at most)  
>> justifying the need for an update must be provided by the maintainers  
>> pushing the update.
> 
> I'm happy this applies only to released versions of Fedora[1].  But I
> think this should also exclude 'newpackage' updates explicitly (ie.
> where a new package is added to a released version of Fedora).

Ah, yes.  I will add a explicit sentence as follows:

* These guidelines are not applicable to updates in rawhide or for 
completely new packages being introduced into the repository.

Thanks.

Rahul




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