Worthless updates

[Ralf Corsepius]

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