Unhelpful update descriptions

Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 11 16:06:06 UTC 2013


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Michael Catanzaro
<mike.catanzaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps the update policy should have a guideline on the minimum amount
> of information required in this description. E.g. "update to latest
> upstream version" might be a perfectly acceptable description for Fedora
> given the fast pace of updates, but I don't think users should ever be
> seeing "no update information available" and especially not "here is
> where you give an explanation of your update." (And I've seen this one
> multiple times within the past couple of weeks.)

I tend to agree here.  That being said, most of my package updates are
something along the lines of "Update to upstream 2.5 release" -- would
you find that descriptive enough, or still lacking in detail?

--
Jared Smith


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