Unhelpful update descriptions

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 12:06 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
> 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?

Perhaps add a link tot he upstream changelog, provided it is accessible
on the web? (e.g a wiki page, in their VCS viewer, etc...)


-- 
Mathieu