Hi
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:49 PM, wrote:
It does seem that there's been a trend forming lately where the rpm's
changelog is covering only what's happened as far as the packaging itself
goes and less about the software being packaged. Maybe that's all the rpm
changelog should ever be? Less useful for what I need, yes, but also more
truthful by not providing a false impression.
The RPM changelog should generally be more about the packaging related
changes rather than upstream and bodhi update should have a summary of the
upstream changes or atleast a link to the upstream changelog. If upstream
doesn't provide a good summary, it doesn't hurt for package maintainers to
ask them. I have found that upstream developers are quite responsive to
such suggestions especially if you provide them tips to automate the
generation of it As a specific example, askbot (which powers
http://ask.fedoraproject.org) has a good summary of changes in a easily
accessible place after I requested them
http://askbot.org/doc/changelog.html
Rahul