Unhelpful update descriptions

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Mon Mar 11 16:45:21 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> 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?

>From the time, Kevin sent me a message in a style of "One more such
update description and I'll will come to Brno to k*ll you" I'm 
trying to provide better description. But it really depends on
quality of upstream Changelogs. Sometimes it's just really hard
to write more than "update to latest upstream version x.y" :(

Jaroslav
 
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