rawhide report: 20110129 changes

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sat Jan 29 16:08:09 UTC 2011


On 01/29/2011 03:34 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> On 01/29/2011 09:21 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>> New package: ghc-process-leksah-1.0.1.4-2.fc15
>>>               Haskell process-leksah library
>>
>> Is it not possible to try a little harder to write a useful package
>> summary?  Or for the package reviewer to take just a quick look and
>> notice that a summary such as that is pretty much completely useless?
>>
>>    - J<
>
>
> Yes, please.  Also, "new upstream version" as the only summary is not
> useful either.  Can't the summary part be automated so the maintainer
> pushing the change can get the change logs as part of the update process?
You are presuming this kind of changelog would be more informative than 
"upstream version".

In many cases this does not apply, but would only produce a lot of 
noise, which many people will not understand.

Ralf


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