rawhide report: 20081223 changes

[drago01]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:
> 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.

yeah if common sense does not work we need a guideline.