Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> That is the point I completely disagree. It is a packager's very job
> to rehash upstream's changelogs. If a packager can't -at the very
> least- give a brief report of what he has accomplished, then he should
> reconsider his adequacy. At the minimal, a URL link to the upstream
> changelog should be given in the Notes. If that doesn't exist, the
> related parts from the changelog file can be copied and pasted. Not
> all users are aware of /usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version}/ directories.
+1
Update notes of the "new upstream version" type are completely useless (and
completely blank ones obviously are, too). How hard can it be to provide a
link to the upstream user-readable changelog or summarize the changes in a
few sentences? Also note that a FSF-style ChangeLog listing every single
commit is NOT an appropriate change summary for the update notes! (And
sadly, that's what the ChangeLog in %doc often contains, if it even exists
at all, summaries are often only provided on some website.)
Kevin Kofler
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