On 2/26/2010 10:55, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> On 2/26/2010 7:26, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> Another annoying issue is updates with no explanations. There is a
>> "Notes" field in bodhi that many people just ignore for an unknown
>> reason. Any update with less than a specified number of characters
>> (~40) in the Notes should also be banned.
>
> What if bodhi were to pre-populate that field with the update's
> changelog entry so there's at least something there by default?
>
Well, that's better than nothing. Still the specfile changelog is the
changelog of the specfile, not the changelog of the software.
It's not a packager's job to rehash upstream's changelog. If people
want to learn about that they can look at the changelog that's already
%doc'd into the package or go read upstream's website. What /is/ the
packager's job is to show how else the package changes with every
release - what bugzilla entries it fixes, what patches are backported,
and so forth.