rawhide report: 20081223 changes

[Chuck Anderson]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:47:07PM +0100, drago01 wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Nicolas Mailhot
> <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Le Mar 23 décembre 2008 15:05, Mat Booth a écrit :
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 10:55 +0000, Rawhide Report wrote:
> >>>> fontpackages-1.13-1.fc11
> >>>> ------------------------
> >>>> * Mon Dec 22 17:00:00 2008 Nicolas Mailhot <nim at fedoraproject
> >>>> dot org>
> >>>> - 1.13-1
> >>>> ⟃ Add another directory to avoid depending on unowned stuff
> >>>> ❤ use it to put the fontconfig examples in a better place
> >>>
> >>> Two new symbols! L33t.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The first one does not display for me.  :-(  All I see is a square
> >> with 27c3 inside.
> >>
> >> Am I missing a font or something? I'm using the latest Firefox 3 in
> >> F10.
> >
> > It's a math symbol so you're probably missing one of the optional
> > distro math fonts.
> 
> Sorry but this starts to become annoying using weird symbols in the
> spec file has no added value.
> Why can't you just write a readable spec file like all other maintainers do?
> Using some non default fonts makes it even worse.
> Even when the fonts are displayed this makes the specfile "harder" to
> read than using simple "-".

I agree.  Consistency is key to readability.  I guess we'll have to go 
make a Packaging Guideline now that says what characters are 
appropriate for use as bullets in changelogs.