On 03/03/2010 02:55 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Jesse Keating wrote:
> No data in the bodhi ticket.
>
> Rpm changelog says "Upstream update"
This sucks.
Your bikeshed ...
While it's fine for the RPM changelog to say that, it'd need
something more useful in the update notes, at which point the maintainer
would also have noticed the futility of this particular update.
> If I google for upstream and look for a changelog, I come to
this:
> Ok... removing deprecated uses is a questionable at best update, but
> here is the kicker. The perl in F11 is perl-5.10.0-82.fc11. So these
> functions aren't actually deprecated in F11. So... why is this update
> going out? What possible benefit does the user get from this? Does
> anybody see this as a reasonable update to publish on F11?
I sure don't.
If you'd use perl you'd know the reason: CPAN.
I want new versions where it makes sense. This one clearly
doesn't.
Thanks for providing evidence on
a) bodhi's uselessness for feedback.
b) how easy it is to cast violent, hostile hip-shot from the background
of lack of backgrounds.
Ralf