On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:43:32 -0500, Jeff Johnson <n3npq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > With no offense whatsoever to anyone, I humbly submit that the comments in > the changelog are of rather limited use to any non-redhat developer, and are > totally useless to any end-user. I don't know about totally useless. I've refered to changelogs in the past to track down issues when troubleshooting issues concerned when a certain bugfix or security fix have been applied. Changelog entries that refer to specific bug numbers or CAN numbers can be quite helpful in this regard. Limited, but not totally useless value. I will conceed that I could probably use a web lookup for all this information if it were made the primary means of access to changelogs. And I would be more at ease with losing the changelogs in the package completely if package update notification texts containing the information were more closely aligned with package update mechanisms. -jef
