On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:13 PM, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 09:28 +0100, drago01 wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Julian Sikorski <belegdol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Rahul Sundaram pisze: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> A while back, I tried to selectively update some packages and noticed >> >> that the update information provided by package maintainers (seen via >> >> PackageKit) is sorely lacking. >> >> >> >> * Update foo to upstream 2.16.2 >> >[..] >> > Btw, how about pulling the data from spec %changelog automatically? >> >> Well in most cases the changelog will just contain the same "update to x.y.z" >> For some packages the changes just aren't worth listing. >> For example each iw release only contain minor changes, people that >> really care about them know how to look it up. >> I could also just add "Small fixes and minor updates from upstream" >> but that's the same as "Update to x.y.z". > > It's the same _to you_, because you know that there are only some minor > number of fixes. But for almost anyone not you it could mean: > > . fix for specific bug > > . minor fixes > > . minor fixes and minor feature or two > > . minor fixes and one huge new feature > > . lots of new features > > ...so putting the longer form in there helps everyone else. > OK, you (and Jesse) have valid points, will be more verbose in the future. Note: For packages that have interesting changes I already *do* put the info into the update, so its not like I always do "update to x.y.z" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
