Unhelpful update descriptions

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Wed Mar 13 01:42:39 UTC 2013


On 03/12/2013 08:17 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> What is the point of the RPM changelog then?

RPM changelog is for packaging changes.  Bodhi update notes are for the 
user.  They are not merely redundant copies of the same information.

>
> The last time I wanted to send a bodhi update, it gave me a transient 
> file that I filled in, and then my ssh key was rejected for some 
> reason, and I didn't have really want to deal with remembering what I 
> wrote last time, so I wrote "new upstream release".

If an update is rejected for whatever reason, it is usually saved as a 
text file in the same folder and you can pass an argument to bodhi to 
reuse that

Rahul


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