FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

[Kevin Kofler]

Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> That is the point I completely disagree. It is a packager's very job
> to rehash upstream's changelogs. If a packager can't -at the very
> least- give a brief report of what he has accomplished, then he should
> reconsider his adequacy. At the minimal, a URL link to the upstream
> changelog should be given in the Notes. If that doesn't exist, the
> related parts from the changelog file can be copied and pasted. Not
> all users are aware of /usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version}/ directories.

+1

Update notes of the "new upstream version" type are completely useless (and 
completely blank ones obviously are, too). How hard can it be to provide a 
link to the upstream user-readable changelog or summarize the changes in a 
few sentences? Also note that a FSF-style ChangeLog listing every single 
commit is NOT an appropriate change summary for the update notes! (And 
sadly, that's what the ChangeLog in %doc often contains, if it even exists 
at all, summaries are often only provided on some website.)

        Kevin Kofler