On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:34:33AM -0800, Christopher Stone wrote: >> Putting feature lists in descriptions is stupid. Obviously, you would >> have to update the description after each release which is stupid. It >> is most likely that feature lists in descriptions are simply cut & >> paste jobs from an upstream web site which is stupid. > > I happen to think that it's reasonable to do this in some > circumstances -- where the upstream website author has written a good, > concise description of the package, and is clearly more familiar with > the package than the Fedora maintainer. And in any case, what is > wrong with feature lists (even if they need to be updated)? If > someone has gone to the effort of doing 'yum info package' then it's > quite likely they're interested in the features of that package. > > Rich. So, why not just go to the upstream website? Spec file descriptions are not the place to look for feature lists... I am certain that in 100% of all cases where feature lists are in spec files, these lists are out of date, inaccurate, and not updated with new features. I also maintain that in 100% of all cases like this, the package maintainer is just being lazy and simply cut&pasted the feature list from the upstream web site, and has no intention whatsoever of actually keeping the list up to date and accurate. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
