how to show upstream changes to the user
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Jan 27 15:13:31 UTC 2009
Shawn Starr wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of
>> Ralf Corsepius
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:50 AM
>> To: Development discussions related to Fedora
>> Subject: Re: how to show upstream changes to the user
>>
>>
>> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
>>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:57:34 +0100, Dan wrote:
>>> This tell testers absolutely nothing
>>>
>>> - New upstream version
>>> - Update to
>> Untrue. It tells those people who are interested into
>> details, to look
>> into upstreams.
>>
>> Ralf
>
> Please don't force packagers to have to bug upstream about what changed.
To put this clear: I do not want these changelog URLs and consider
Mr. Sundaram's proposal to be a unhelpful campaign to adding yet more
bureaucracy to the already overboarding bureaucracy, package maintainers
in Fedora are confronted with.
> Unless another set of Fedora people
> want to dig for that information to update the packager.
> Some of us don't have the time to nag upstream about what they
> changed.
Agreed.
> Be happy you GET a package, don't be greedy :)
Agreed.
Ralf
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